Europol dismantles cybercrime network linked to $5.8M in financial losses
Authorities arrested seven people allegedly involved in the operation and seized 1,200 SIM boxes containing 40,000 active SIM cards.
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Secret Service says it dismantled extensive telecom threat in NYC area
In all, the agency said it discovered more than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards spread across multiple sites within 35 miles of New York.
Meet ‘Simjacker,’ a nasty mobile vulnerability researchers say puts 1 billion phones at risk
A unnamed spyware vendor is using malicious SMS messages to infiltrate victims' phones, according to AdaptiveMobile Security.
Astronomical costs, geopolitical headaches: Telecom fraud is too big to ignore, report says
The illicit activities cost companies and consumers about $33 billion per year, according to Europol and Trend Micro.