A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in ...

What Are SIM-Swapping Attacks? Also called SIM splitting or simjacking, these types of attacks typically start with a hacker who gains access to your personal data, including your name, phone number, ...

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 ...

Today, an Alabama man pleaded guilty to his involvement in the hijacking of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) account on X in a January 2024 SIM swapping attack. This comes after the ...

Despite buying an eSIM to protect myself better, I still would've left myself vulnerable to hacking without taking further action. To shut cybercriminals out for good, I took matters into my own hands ...

Spy agencies allegedly hacked into the computer systems of a foreign commercial company to steal secrets that would allow them to tap into over a quarter of the world's cell phones. Late last week, ...

The FBI says that Eric Council Jr. used a SIM swapping attack to make a fake X post from @SEC claiming Bitcoin ETFs had been approved. The FBI says that Eric Council Jr. used a SIM swapping attack to ...

SK Telecom is offering users free SIM card replacements after their system suffered from a malware attack, which led to customer SIM data leaks. SK Telecom's stores are low on SIM cards, but the ...