Re:Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
by tety on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:30PM
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Digital wallets as in Apple/Google Pay? I had a similar thing happen and I am wondering what did you make of this double charge, what did the attackers do in your opinion?
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Re:Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks
by resonantjacket5 on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:09PM
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no it's like a continuation of your credit card for recurring payments.
It's called Automatic Billing Updater (ABU)
the idea is that if you ask for a new credit card after being stolen, your say utility providers or other like netflix subscriptions can seamlessly switch over to the new credit card number.
it worked fine for a while, but of course the problem is that afterwards the stolen credit card credentials started to be refreshed as well.
(used ai to fetch the list below).
Visa: Visa Account Updater (VAU) Mastercard: Automatic Billing Updater (ABU) American Express: Cardrefresher General: Recurring Payment Tokenization