Malwarebytes
MARCH 19, 2024
A 42-year-old manager at an unnamed telecommunications company has admitted SIM swapping customers at his store. SIM swapping can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the most common involves a social engineering attack on the victim’s carrier. He was paid in Bitcoin, which was traced back to Katz’s cryptocurrency account.
Malwarebytes
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 29, 2022
You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The now-defunct and always phony cryptocurrency trading platform xtb-market[.]com,
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 19, 2020
For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. Allen said it matters little to the attackers if the first few social engineering attempts fail. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com) com) targeting AT&T employees. Image: urlscan.io.
Malwarebytes
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In 2022, Octo Tempest began selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals in order to steal their cryptocurrency. It can even hurt companies with enterprise grade security. The security of your private accounts matters to the company you work for.
SecureList
MARCH 7, 2024
Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. Cryptocurrency scams Phishing aimed at stealing crypto wallet credentials remained a common money-making tool. Scam sites also used cryptocurrency as bait.
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