‘The Community’ allegedly netted $2.4 million in cryptocurrency ‘The Community’ allegedly netted $2.4 million in cryptocurrency Nine people have been charged in an alleged conspiracy to hijack SIM ...

Europol, with help from local law enforcement, has made a series of arrests across Europe in a crackdown on SIM-swapping attacks. Under the name "Operation Quinientos Dusim," Europol's European ...

A 20-year-old man has been formally charged in a U.S. supreme court indictment over 52 cases of SIM-swap identity and crypto theft. Updated Sep 13, 2021, 8:51 a.m. Published Feb 4, 2019, 12:30 p.m. A ...

On Feb. 24, a California federal judge ruled that cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin can proceed with his lawsuit against telecom corporation AT&T over a $24 million SIM hacking incident. Terpin ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Though Instagram’s confirmation was likely prompted by the ...

A few weeks ago, a report highlighted how hackers were gaining access to Instagram accounts by stealing a phone number and reassigning it to a different SIM card. Now, authorities have made an arrest ...

SK Telecom has shown that it is concluding the management of the SIM card hacking incident that occurred in April. According to the industry on the 11th, SK Telecom has reduced the crisis response ...

Today's Alphabet Soup: SIM DES SMS GSM UN ITU NSA OTOH. Karsten Nohl, a German security researcher, warns that more than half a billion mobile phones could be vulnerable to attack. He's found a ...

Digital-security company Gemalto is looking into a report that British and American intelligence agencies hacked its systems and stole encryption keys that keep mobile phone communications private.

The world was shocked by revelations from Edward Snowden recently that U.S. and British spies hacked SIM card maker Gelmato to gain access to billions of phones. The encryption keys on SIM cards are ...

SAN JOSE — After admitting to stealing more than $1 million in bitcoin and other online cryptocurrency, a Boston-area man faces 10 years in prison for commandeering victims’ smartphones to access ...

Your phone number may be the key to your bank account as many scammers are using a new technique called SIM hacking. In a TikTok with over 1.2 million views, creator lex.and.her.pen (@lex.and.her.pen) ...