The fraud involves criminals gaining control of a victim's mobile phone number [PA Media] A growing number of cyber-criminals are collecting personal information shared on social media to hijack ...

If you haven’t experienced SIM swap fraud, count yourself lucky. It’s a relatively new, sophisticated form of fraud that allows hackers to gain access to bank accounts, credit card numbers, and other ...

Scammers first collect personal details via phishing, data breaches, or social media; they then contact the victims mobile carrier, pretending to be them ...

Cyber criminals hijack mobile numbers through illegal SIM porting, draining UPI and bank accounts within hours.

Last month, Europol announced that it had arrested seven individuals who were allegedly perpetrators in a SIM Swap scam operation. Described as a Cybercrime-as-a-Service operation, enforcement ...

Kolkata: A woman doctor from Karaya was allegedly cheated of about Rs 11 lakh in a SIM-swap fraud while she was in Ahmedabad ...

Two Westlake residents have been arrested by Palm Beach Police, who say the pair executed an elaborate financial fraud known as "SIM swapping" that attempted to steal more than $200,000 from a Palm ...

During Kaspersky Lab’s ( www.Kaspersky.co.za ) annual Cyber Security Weekend that took place in Cape Town, South Africa, Kaspersky Lab experts discussed the wide spread growth of mobile payments ...

Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation in Kericho County waylaid and arrested a suspect in a SIM card fraud investigation. David Mutai alias Hillary Langat has been on the run for ...

A growing number of cyber-criminals are collecting personal information shared on social media to hijack people's mobile phone numbers, police have said. Fraudsters then steal bank security codes as ...

Two Westlake residents were arrested on charges that they used an elaborate 'SIM swap' scam to gain access to a Palm Beach resident's phone and financial accounts. Police said the Westlake residents ...