Mobile phone network operator O2 is urging customers to call a three-digit number and, if necessary, contact their bank as part of its latest alert. In a fresh wave of text messages and emails being ...

Taking selfies and using biometrics to verify identities during SIM card registrations could help stop SIM-swap fraud, saving South Africans who bank on their phones billions of rands a year. This is ...

Ahmedabad: A real estate developer from Sola area in Ahmedabad was duped of Rs 1.07 crore in an alleged e-sim swapping fraud, prompting a complaint with the cybercrime police on Thursday.According to ...

WAXAHACHIE, Texas — A Waxahachie man was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison Friday after pleading guilty to a wire fraud scheme involving taking control of victims' cell phone numbers to steal ...

Our phones are the key to our digital identity. So it's no wonder they have become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals, who have a fair number of ways to take control of your phone ...

Silent Link, a Bitcoin native SMS and mobile data company, has quietly grown into an international service provider for privacy-oriented users worldwide, at competitive rates. But how can a young ...

HOUSTON — A Houston woman says a quick break-in at a park turned into a months-long nightmare after criminals repeatedly tried to hijack her cell phone number without ever stealing her phone. Marcia ...

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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 ...

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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 ...