Last week, I shared a horror story: My SIM was swapped. My Google and Twitter accounts were also stolen, and $25,000 was withdrawn from my bank account for a Bitcoin purchase. I thought I was targeted ...

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. Unsecured ...

Cybercriminals are cheating people nowadays with SIM swap scams. In this scam, they get a user's mobile number activated on the SIM they have. This can cause great loss to the user. Nowadays cyber ...

Just how easy is it to conduct a SIM swap attack and what can the attacker do once they have taken control of your phone number? In short, it’s worryingly easy and the criminals can do a lot once they ...

Jeff Drobman knew something was wrong when Bank of America alerts popped up on his phone. “I started to get notifications that someone tried to log into my account, that my password had been changed,” ...

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 ...

The Ethereum co-founder has regained control of his T-Mobile account, confirming that a SIM swap attack resulted in the hack of his X account. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has confirmed that ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, offers a detailed look at how to build risk management policies to protect your critical digital assets. Read now A Princeton ...

Unsecured email accounts are being targeted by Sim-swap scammers, but a worrying escalation in cases suggests mobile networks should be doing more to protect customers. Sim swapping involves criminals ...