Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chun Ai Deng considers herself a careful banking customer. So when she noticed a transaction on her Chase debit card for $3,809 at Best Buy, a store she’d never visited, she knew something was wrong.

(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 ...