The complex the machine, its probability of getting hacked increases. Recently, an Italian hacker Matteo Pisani hacked the payment arrangement used yesteryear the vending machines
The vending machines are installed by Argenta, a pop java services provider inward Italy, similar a shot acquired yesteryear the Selecta Group B.V... While inspecting the working of the machine's payment system, Pisani constitute a agency to become costless credit using a mobile app.
The machine's payment arrangement supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as well as Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies, it enables a user to connect them to the car equally good equally brand payment using their smartphone.
“With a macro inspection of all the reversed sources I constitute huge component division of build clean code — without obfuscation — that meant no non bad counter-measures adopted to protect user information as well as brand the App secure at all,“ Pisani notes.
Prior to making the findings public, Pisani had informed the companionship close the flaws inward their payment system.
“I gently suggested them to toss the electrical flow architecture as well as prepare a amend as well as secure ane from scratch,” the hacker says.
The researcher has fifty-fifty uploaded a video titled "How I hacked modern Vending Machines" on Youtube explaining the flaw.
