Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

There are all kinds of scams out there that we need to protect ourselves from, and one that is especially on the rise right now is known as SIM swapping. This type of scam takes control of your phone ...

US officials charged a man with compromising the official Twitter/X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission for purposes of posting false information that caused the price of bitcoin to ...

A Palm Beach resident may be one of many people across the country who fell victim to a scam known as "SIM swapping." Palm Beach Police on May 28 arrested a 31-year-old man and 29-year-old woman who ...

Rules require more secure customer authentication and notice for SIM changes and port-out requests On November 16, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") released a Report ...

Last month, Europol announced that it had arrested seven individuals who were allegedly perpetrators in a SIM Swap scam operation. Described as a Cybercrime-as-a-Service operation, enforcement ...

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Criminals are now texting T-Mobile and Verizon employees on their personal and work phones, trying to tempt them with cash to perform SIM swaps. The targeted employees have shared screenshots of ...

Identity thieves have a new way of gaining access to your finances. Even if you’ve frozen your credit report, they can grab your money by taking over your phone number. It’s called “SIM swapping.” ...

SIM swapping: the simple way that hackers took over the SEC’s X Account Experts say SIM swap attacks like the one the SEC experienced will continue happening until mobile phone carriers change how ...

The hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, earlier this month was the result of a “SIM swap” attack, an agency spokesperson said ...

Charges filed as soaring cryptocurrency prices drive increase in SIM swapping crimes. If someone tried to ransom the photos on my phone they'd be very disappointed. Photographic evidence of a crushed ...