Eavesdropping one-time tokens over magnetic secure transmission in Samsung Pay

Daeseon Choi, Younho Lee

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Abstract

We have discovered a security vulnerability in the Samsung Pay app. The magnetic secure transmission in Samsung Pay emits too many magnetic signals that are excessively strong. Thus, we built a low-cost receiver to eavesdrop on the emitted magnetic signals. Using this receiver, we successfully eavesdropped the one-time token for a payment made on the Samsung Pay app around 0.6m ~ 2.0m from where the payment was taking place, depending on the orientation of the magnetic field emitting antenna in the victim device. We verified that the collected one-time token could be used away from the victim device if the collected payment information was quickly transmitted over the Internet.

Original languageEnglish
StatePublished - 2016
Event10th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, WOOT 2016 - Austin, United States
Duration: 8 Aug 20169 Aug 2016

Conference

Conference10th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, WOOT 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period8/08/169/08/16

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