SIM card swapping can leave your accounts vulnerable to hackers. If you haven't heard of SIM swapping fraud, you're lucky. However, you don't want to fall victim to this type of scam. SIM swapping ...

After years of security controversies, T-Mobile is reporting major improvements in its fight against SIM swaps and cyberattacks.

Michael Engle is CSO at 1Kosmos, and was previously head of information security at Lehman Brothers and co-founder of Bastille Networks. The Covid-19 lockdown accelerated the use of mobile and digital ...

SIM swapping attacks have been reported in the media since 2017. Such attacks usually target banking transactions but not only. These attacks are also perpetrated against the cryptocurrency community, ...

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We are in a period when a smartphone functions as a digital wallet, identity card, and security key all at once. One of the oldest tricks in the cybercrime playbook has returned with a vengeance.

SIM swapping has become so widespread that lawmakers now consider it a national security threat. And no one is immune – not even high-profile figures like Twitter and Bluesky founder Jack Dorsey, or ...

Smartphones have been a boon to productivity and convenience. Many consumers have shifted their banking and investment transactions to the time-saving apps on their phones. But along with convenience, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A financially motivated cybergang tracked by Mandiant as 'UNC3944' is using phishing and SIM swapping attacks to hijack Microsoft Azure admin accounts and gain access to virtual machines. Joseph James ...

Swapping SIM cards isn't something you'll do all the time, but when it does come up, you should do it carefully.