SecInfo is a leading cyber security provider who recently hired Andrew, a security analyst. He was assigned the task of identifying vulnerabilities in the NFC devices by performing an attack on them. In this process, he was present with his device in the close proximity with the NFC devices that are sharing data so that he can eavesdrop on the data and at the same time block the transmission to the receiver. He then manipulated the captured data and further relayed the data to the receiver. Identify the type of attack performed by Andrew on the target NFC devices?

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Andrew performed a Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack, where he intercepted and manipulated the communication between NFC devices before relaying it to the intended receiver.

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