Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

The eSIM standard was introduced in 2016, slowly gaining support as a secondary option in smartphones. Rather than holding ...

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 ...

There are all kinds of scams out there that we need to protect ourselves from, and one that is especially on the rise right now is known as SIM swapping. This type of scam takes control of your phone ...

Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. The independent communications ...

One of the world's largest telecommunication services providers, Telefónica (TEF), is partnering with decentralized oracle network Chainlink LINK $17.72 to ensure security against Web3-related hacks ...

The scam usually starts with a short, casual message that appears to come from someone the victim already knows and trusts.

A type of identity theft whereby the crook has already stolen a user's login data to a financial account but needs to verify actually logging in via the code commonly texted to a phone number. See two ...

Through SIM-swap or duplicate SIM fraud, fraudsters can gain control of your number and obtain all incoming OTPs. Simply put, ...

It's been a bit over two years since T-Mobile merged with Sprint. T-Mobile discontinued the Sprint brand four months later, in August 2020, but many legacy Sprint subscribers have still yet to swap ...

A man in Florida lost more than $700,000 after being targeted by a SIM swap scam. The FBI has recently warned of such schemes, which involve criminals "impersonating a victim and tricking the mobile ...

SINGAPORE: A teenager registered 25 SIM cards in exchange for money, with two of the cards later used in scams that resulted ...