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SIM Swappers Try Bribing T-Mobile and Verizon Staff $300
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Not OK: SMS 2FA — Widespread spam targets carrier employees, as scrotes try harder to evade two-factor authentication ...
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SEC’s X Breach Highlights Need for Better Defense Against SIM Swap Attacks
The ease with which fraudsters applied the SIM swap attack on the SEC indicates the issue should be a top concern for all organizations ...
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FCC’s Got New Rules for SIM-Swap and Port-Out Fraud
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Too many times: Federal Communications Commission shuts stable door after horse bolted. But chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (pictured) was hoping it would save us ...
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Attack on Kroll Puts a Spotlight on SIM Swapping
Three cryptocurrency firms undergoing bankruptcy restructuring sustained data breaches after an employee at risk advisory firm Kroll recently fell victim to a SIM swapping scam, an attack technique that doesn’t get the ...
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Kroll Employee SIM-Swapped for Crypto Investor Data
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, BlockFi, Data breaches, FTX, Kroll breach, Latest Warnings, SIM swapping, T-Mobile
Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services ...
Teenage Hackers Must be Stopped: US DHS’s CSRB Report
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2FA SMS FAIL: Lapsus$ social engineers exploited weak two-factor authentication. Something must be done! (Well, this is something.) ...
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U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison
BrianKrebs | | Graham Ivan Clarke, Joseph James O'Connor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, PlugWalkJoe, SIM swapping, twitter hack
Joseph James "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years ...
Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Allison Nixon, Data breaches, International Computer Science Institute, Minecraft, Nicholas Weaver, roblox, Security Keys, SIM swapping, T-Mobile, tmo up, Unit 221B, Web Fraud 2.0
Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers ...
SIM Swapping, Crypto Theft, and Sentencing in the United States
As you know from the title of my blog, "CyberCrime & Doing Time," I'm very interested in cybercrime and the criminal justice system. This week I've been looking at SIM Swapping cases ...
Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims
BrianKrebs | | Aspertaine, ChumLul, James Thomas Andrew McCarty, Kya Christian Nelson, Ne'er-Do-Well News, SIM swapping, violence-as-a-service
Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then "swatting" them -- falsely reporting a violent incident at the target's ...