Enhancing IoT Security: A Lightweight Cloning Approach for RFID/NFC Access Control Systems
Muhammad Ismaeel Khan, Hassan Tahir, Md Ismail Jobiullah, Ali Raza A Khan, Sakera Begum, Ihtasham Hafeez · Cuestiones de Fisioterapia · 2023
Near Field Communication (NFC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) are crucial empowering technologies exploited in asset tracking, payment systems and secure access control etc. However, their weaknesses leave their security and privacy at risk especially in case of clone-based attacks in which unauthorized users can replicate RFID/NFC cards to obtain entry to restricted zones or systems. The Proxmark3 tool is highly accessible and is used to not only demonstrate cloning capabilities, but also provide methods of reducing such threats. Cloning RFID/NFC cards that are not encrypted has a near 99% success rate as demonstrated in experiments. Even more advanced encrypted standards such as MIFARE DESFire and HID iCLASS showed a high rate of success of cloning, and this proves that current security standards are not satisfactory. The primary way this research contributes is that it introduces a lightweight and inexpensive method to examine and prevent RFID/NFC cloning attacks without involving any extra hardware. This approach had the highest detection accuracy of 95.2%. The presented technique is promoted as a scalable security paradigm of the IoT system, and its real-world implementation is needed in the healthcare, financial, and transportation industries.