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Risk and financial advisory solutions provider Kroll on Friday disclosed that one of its employees fell victim to a “highly sophisticated” SIM swapping attack. The incident, which took place on August 19, 2023, targeted the employee’s T-Mobile account, the company said. “Specifically, T-Mobile, without any authority from or contact with Kroll or its employee, transferred […]
A persistent intrusion campaign has set its eyes on telecommunications and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies at lease since June 2022. “The end objective of this campaign appears to be to gain access to mobile carrier networks and, as evidenced in two investigations, perform SIM swapping activity,” CrowdStrike researcher Tim Parisi said in an analysis […]
Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday confirmed that it was the victim of a security breach in March after the LAPSUS$ mercenary gang managed to gain access to its networks. The acknowledgment came after investigative journalist Brian Krebs shared internal chats belonging to the core members of the group indicating that LAPSUS$ breached the company several […]
T-Mobile is the only telecom giant to suffer at least three known data breaches in 2021. Another day, another data breach at T-Mobile – This time, the Bellevue, Washington-based telecom giant has acknowledged suffering a cyberattack in which the personal information of “a very small number of customers” was accessed by unknown attackers. What happened? […]
A 21-year old hacker from Rockport, MA, has admitted running a campaign over social media to hijack “high-value” account names and steal cryptocurrency. According to the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), the accused Declan Harrington has pleaded to one count of aggravated identity theft, one count of conspiracy, one count of computer fraud and […]
Cybercriminals are activity performing SIM swap Attack in various countries to bypass 2 Factor Authentication and to compromise the various social media apps including WhatsApp by porting a victims telephone number to a new SIM card. This widespread attack causing the financial damages, steal credentials and capture OTPs to bypass victims online accounts. There are […]
Elderly people who aren’t tech savvy seem to be an easy target of fraudsters. Along the similar lines, criminals have, reportedly, stolen the ’50 years of savings’ of an elderly man via SIM swapping scam; the incident took place in South Africa. “How they got access to account details, I don’t know. There was a […]