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M&S cyber-attack: How to protect yourself from sim-swap fraud

Our mobile phone numbers have become a de facto form of identification, but they can be hijacked for nefarious purposes. Just such an attack may have been involved in the recent very damaging ...
AOL

What is a sim-swap? How you could be targeted by the fraud used to hack M&S

Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...
SlashGear

T-Mobile Is Bringing Back A Power User Favorite Feature - Here's How (And When) You Can Use It

After three years, telecommunications company T-Mobile is bringing a handy feature back to the T-Life app: self-service SIM swapping. SIM swapping lets users switch which SIM card is associated with a ...
Android Police

T-Mobile is beefing up its defense against SIM swap attacks

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 ...
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M&S cyberattack: How sim-swap fraudsters exploit trust to steal data

The cyberattack that has targeted Marks and Spencer (M&S) is the latest in a growing wave of cases involving something called sim-swap fraud. While the full technical details remain under ...
TechCentral

Sim crime goes industrial as fraudsters target South Africa’s digital economy

Sim-swap fraud, identity impersonation and large-scale Sim-farm operations are no longer fringe problems, writes Bradley ...