NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20 Million SIM Swap Theft

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Nicholas Truglia was part of a group alleged to have stolen more than $100 million from cryptocurrency...

CVE-2021-44480

Wokka Lokka Q50 devices through 2021-11-30 allow remote attackers who know the SIM phone number and password to listen to a device's surroundings via a callback in an SMS command, as demonstrated by the 123456 and 523681 default passwords...

Default credentials

Wokka Lokka Q50 devices through 2021-11-30 allow remote attackers who know the SIM phone number and password to listen to a device's surroundings via a callback in an SMS command, as demonstrated by the 123456 and 523681 default passwords...

CVE-2021-44480

Wokka Lokka Q50 devices through 2021-11-30 allow remote attackers who know the SIM phone number and password to listen to a device's surroundings via a callback in an SMS command, as demonstrated by the 123456 and 523681 default passwords...

Hacker Jailed for Stealing Millions of Dollars in Cryptocurrencies by SIM Hijacking

A sixth member associated with an international hacking group known as The Community has been sentenced in connection with a multimillion-dollar SIM swapping conspiracy, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ said. Garrett Endicott, 22, from the U.S. state of Missouri, who pleaded guilty to charges o...

A Canadian Teen Was Arrested in a $36.5M SIM-Swap Heist

Plus: An FBI email hack, a cam site data leak, and more of the week's top security news...

Threat from Organized Cybercrime Syndicates Is Rising

From encrypting communications to fencing ill-gotten gains on underground sites, organized crime is cashing in on the digital revolution. The latest organized crime threat assessment from Europol issues a dire warning about the corrosive effect the rising influence of criminal syndicates is havin...

Twitter hacker charged in sim swapping, cryptocurrency scheme

By Waqas The 22-year-old British national Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, was one of the hackers behind 2020's massive Twitter hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Twitter hacker charged in sim swapping, cryptocurrency scheme...

This Week in Security News - November 5th, 2021

This week, learn about what the future of cybercrime could potentially look like by the start of the next decade, according to Trend Micro’s Project 2030. Also, read on how a hacker stole $784k in crypto through SIM swaps...

Hardware-grade enterprise authentication without hardware: new SIM security solution for IAM

The average cost of a data breach, according to the latest research by IBM, now stands at USD 4.24 million, the highest reported. The leading cause? Compromised credentials, often caused by human error. Although these findings continue to show an upward trend in the wrong direction, the challenge...

Oracle Primavera Gateway (Oct 2021 CPU)

The version of Primavera Gateway installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the October 2021 CPU advisory, including the following: - Vulnerability in the Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management product of Oracle Retail Applications component: SIM...

New U.S. Government Initiative Holds Contractors Accountable for Cybersecurity

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative that aims to hold contractors accountable for failing to meet required cybersecurity requirements in order to safeguard public sector information and infrastructure. "For too long, companies have chosen...

CVE-2021-25474

Assuming a shell privilege is gained, an improper exception handling for multisimbarshowonqspanel value in SystemUI prior to SMR Oct-2021 Release 1 allows an attacker to cause a permanent denial of service in user device before factory reset...

CVE-2021-25473

Assuming a shell privilege is gained, an improper exception handling for multisimbarhidebymeadiafull value in SystemUI prior to SMR Oct-2021 Release 1 allows an attacker to cause a permanent denial of service in user device before factory reset...

Samsung SMR 安全漏洞

Samsung SystemUI is a system application for Samsung Samsung mobile devices. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Samsung SystemUI that stems from an exception handling error in SystemUI for multisimbarhidebymeadiafull, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service...

Help Might Finally Be on the Way to Fight SIM-Swap Attacks

Plus: A cybersecurity CEO arrest, an Apple Pay hack, and more of the week's top security news...

The FCC moves to curb SIM swap attacks

The Federal Communications Commission FCC is going to set new rules to curb the rising threat of SIM swapping, also known as SIMjacking. SIM swapping and the very similar port-out fraud is the unlawful use of someones personal information to steal their phone number and swap or transfer it to...

FCC Proposal Targets SIM Swapping, Port-Out Fraud

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a targets mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victims online...

Europol nabs 106 criminals involved in SIM swapping, money laundering

By Waqas Europol said that the suspects carried out a number of cybercrimes included phishing, SIM Swapping, and BEC business email compromise. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Europol nabs 106 criminals involved in SIM swapping, money laundering...

Europol Breaks Open Extensive Mafia Cybercrime Ring

International law enforcement has busted up an extensive cybercrime operation run by a gang with ties to the Italian Mafia. The group allegedly used phishing attacks to defraud hundreds of victims. The suspects used various lures to convince victims mostly Italian nationals but also Spanish,...