sim swapping

A fraudster from Pennsylvania Anthony Folk received three years in prison for cryptocurrency fraud. A US court has sentenced Anthony Folk, a 26-year-old hacker from Pennsylvania, who, along with his accomplices, deceived cryptocurrency owners and extorted money from them. Faulk received three...

The SIM Swapping attack allows a criminal to assign your phone number and gain access to all your accounts. What is a SIM card? SIM stands for Subscriber Identity Module and is a small removable chip card that is inserted into the phone. Each SIM card is unique and linked to your phone number...

What is it good for? A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, and simjacking, SIM swapping)is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS)...