You're at home, scrolling through your phone like any other night. Suddenly, nothing works. Texts stop, calls fail and alerts disappear. That's how it started for Florida woman Patricia Escriva. She ...

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Chiara is an award-winning investigative reporter who specialises in banking and fraud, joining Which? in 2015 following six years as a personal finance journalist at a national newspaper. Set as ...

SIM swap scams let fraudsters access your OTPs and bank accounts. Victims often realise only after losing phone signal and money. Regulators urge stronger authentication beyond SMS-based OTPs. Did our ...

Handing over a single text message code could cost you thousands of dollars, according to a new passcode hijacking warning from the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC). In Ontario, passcode hijacking ...

MUMBAI: Holding that a customer cannot be penalised for cyber fraud without negligence, the Bombay high court has ordered HDFC Bank to return ₹38.04 lakh to a Pune resident duped in a SIM swap scam.

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 ...

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 ...