Imagine scrolling on your phone one day, waiting on a text or call from someone, when suddenly your network stops working. You can’t get any new calls or texts or use any mobile data. Then, you ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken bold action against cybercriminals who allegedly stole more than $5 million in bitcoin through a sophisticated scheme involving SIM swapping and online ...

About four years ago, the Mulot SIM-swap criminals—long associated with mobile money fraud—mainly operated in Bomet and Narok counties. Mulot, comprising three trading centres (Mulot Sunset in Bomet ...

Over the past several months, according to the weekly sheriff’s reports, scams have been perpetuated against a number of residents. These have included, but not limited, to phone scams in which a ...

Google Messages is testing a new long-press shortcut to quickly switch SIMs while composing messages. The feature reduces the steps required to swap SIMs after Google previously removed the SIM ...

SIM swapping has become so widespread that lawmakers now consider it a national security threat. And no one is immune – not even high-profile figures like Twitter and Bluesky founder Jack Dorsey, or ...

In a recent crackdown on cybercrime, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., has revealed the indictments of an alleged SIM-swapping identity theft ring that comprised individuals, including ...

Face swapping technology has evolved rapidly, allowing anyone to create professional-looking edits effortlessly. GoEnhance AI’s face swap provides a fast and reliable way to swap faces in photos, ...

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 ...

A 2023 lawsuit suggests that T-Mobile customers may have been at risk of falling victim to a SIM swap attack since the mid-2010s, and the company reportedly doesn't want you to know about it. The ...