The January attack, federal prosecutors said, started with a SIM swap, a form of fraud that takes control of a cell phone number by assuming the identity of the person the number belongs to.

On your next international trip, instead of swapping your physical SIM card on your phone to a local SIM, try a more ...

A growing type of fraud exploiting mobile phone usage is known as SIM swapping. A subscriber identity module (SIM) was traditionally a small, removable card in your mobile phone that identified ...

Wiz Khalifa's Twitter account appears to have been hacked in an attempt to push a fraudulent coin onto unsuspecting followers ...

T-Mobile discontinued the Sprint brand four months later, in August 2020, but many legacy Sprint subscribers have still yet to swap out their SIM cards. To convince those customers to make the ...

Digital payments are now a common way to transact in India. This has led to a rise in online scams targeting unsuspecting ...

This type of fraud is known as SIM swapping. The fraudulent holder of a SIM can access a wide range of content on a phone, which can serve as a gateway to financial, social media, email and other ...