The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
US intelligence reports: online terrorist network 764 is using techniques normally used for financial crimes, such as SIM swapping, to commit child sextortion
US cops are ringing alarms about how teenage cybercriminals are veering into domestic terrorism partly for accelerationism but also for the cred. — Amazing @gregotto.bsky.social + Jana Winter story ...
Current and former T-Mobile and Verizon employees say they are receiving texts offering up to $300 to perform a SIM swap; T-Mobile says it is investigating
Criminals are now texting T-Mobile and Verizon employees on their personal and work phones, trying to tempt them with cash to perform SIM swaps.
SEC filing: T-Mobile says a hacker stole the data of ~37M customers, including names, addresses, and phone numbers, but not passwords, SSNs, or credit cards
here's what to do if you're ever worried that your data was leaked Chris Velazco / Washington Post : Here's what to do if you think you're affected by T-Mobile's latest data breach Lorenzo Franceschi-...
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter took coordinated action to take down top members of account hijacking forum OGUsers and seized hundreds of accounts
who hack, SIM swap, extort to get high value usernames—and has sent them legal letters demanding they stop. Also disabled their accounts. Twitter + TikTok too https://www.vice.com/... @briankrebs : To...
Profile of Twitter hack mastermind Graham Clark, a troubled teen who allegedly went from scamming on Minecraft to joining hacker forum OGUsers and SIM swapping
The teenage “mastermind” of the recent Twitter breach, who had a difficult family life, poured his energy into video games and cryptocurrency.
Researchers: “SimJacker”, a widespread SIM card-based vulnerability, is being exploited by a private actor “that works with governments to monitor individuals”
https://thehackernews.com/... #infosec #technews https://twitter.com/... @thehackersnews : What's more worrisome? According to researchers, a specific private company that works with Governments is ac...
Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked on Friday, possibly by a group that calls themselves the Chuckle Squad, which posted a number of racist tweets
and he's the CEO of Twitter John Callaham / Android Authority : Regularly changing your Twitter password is important, as Twitter CEO found out Tweets: @twittercomms : We're aware that @jack was compr...
Inside OGUSERS, a forum to trade social media and gaming handles, often stolen via “SIM hijacking” where phone numbers are stolen via carrier's customer service
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : Tweets: @jason_koebler , @lorenzofb , @briankrebs , @itgirljs , and @jason_koebler Tweets: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : Meanwhile, hackers are active...
Instagram says it is building a non-SMS two-factor authentication system that works with security apps like Google Authenticator or Duo to thwart SIM hijackers
Hackers can steal your phone number by reassigning it to a different SIM card, use it to reset your passwords …