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 ...

Have you heard of SIM swapping? It’s a new trick that hackers are using to get money and mess up your life. So, what is SIM swapping? It’s when a hacker tricks your cell phone company into thinking ...

Your phone number could be stolen, giving thieves access to your accounts. Robert Ross had never heard of the crime of “SIM swapping” until he became a victim. “I saw a notification for a withdrawal ...

A growing number of cyber-criminals are collecting personal information shared on social media to hijack people's mobile phone numbers, police have said. Fraudsters then steal bank security codes as ...

If you haven’t experienced SIM swap fraud, count yourself lucky. It’s a relatively new, sophisticated form of fraud that allows hackers to gain access to bank accounts, credit card numbers, and other ...

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, ...

Since the cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapsed in November 2022, a lingering question had been what happened to approximately $400 million in cryptocurrency that disappeared as Sam Bankman-Fried’s ...

A San Fernando Valley, California, man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after orchestrating a massive fraud operation that targeted dozens of victims, many of them elderly.

Your SIM card might be under attack without you knowing. Here is how to know if you are hacked, and how to get out of it ...

(NEW YORK) — Robert Ross had never heard of the crime of “SIM swapping” until he became a victim. “I saw a notification for a withdrawal request from one of my financial institutions,” the tech ...

A subscriber identity module (SIM) was traditionally a small, removable card in your mobile phone that identified your phone number and authenticated your identity to a mobile network. When you got a ...