Federal prosecutors have charged multiple groups of defendants across the country for using SIM swaps to seize victims’ phone ...

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 ...

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The F.B.I. has issued a warning about the growing number of “SIM swap” scams that essentially steal someone’s cellphone number to hack their personal data. A “SIM swap” scam occurs when a criminal ...

The latest figures from the UK's National Fraud Database show a tenfold rise in SIM swap fraud cases over the past year. Criminals are hijacking mobile numbers to intercept two-factor authentication ...

The Justice Department recently, quietly unsealed an indictment that some mainstream and crypto media platforms quickly picked up and reported as charges that “solved” the mystery of a $400 million ...

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 ...

T-Mobile was ordered to pay $33 million in damages after losing an arbitration case tied to a major security failure. The case involved a SIM swap attack that allowed hackers to steal $38 million in ...

A type of identity theft whereby the crook has already stolen a user's login data to a financial account but needs to verify actually logging in via the code commonly texted to a phone number. See two ...

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Nicholas ...