Criminals are increasingly using a technique called “SIM swapping” to steal personal information and gain access to your accounts via your phone. SIM swapping is a crime where criminals steal your ...

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 ...

Our mobile phone numbers have become a de facto form of identification, but they can be hijacked for nefarious purposes. Just such an attack may have been involved in the recent very damaging ...

The FBI is issuing a warning about a new scam that’s costing victims millions of dollars. A news release from the FBI alerts mobile carriers and the public about an increase in Subscriber Identity ...

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 ...

We live in a fast-paced digital world, and smartphones have become a staple of our everyday lives. We rely on the device for everything from communication to banking to controlling all of our ...

SIM-swapping attacks targeting executives are on the rise. In 2023, the FBI investigated 1,075 SIM-swapping attacks, which resulted in nearly $50 million in losses. SIM swapping has become so ...

NEW YORK (AP) — SIM-swapping is a growing form of identity theft that goes beyond hacking into an email or social media account. In this case, the thieves take over your phone number. Any calls or ...

A surge in SIM swapping fraud across the Middle East has exposed new tactics used by cybercriminals to exploit victims. According to a new report by Group-IB, fraudsters are increasingly leveraging ...

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 ...