A SIM card is, effectively, a portable identity token. Once compromised, it gives attackers a back door into bank accounts, digital wallets, investment apps, and high-risk transactional environments.

If you haven’t experienced SIM swap fraud, count yourself lucky. It’s a relatively new, sophisticated form of fraud that allows hackers to gain access to bank accounts, credit card numbers, and other ...

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 ...

Smartphones have been a boon to productivity and convenience. Many consumers have shifted their banking and investment transactions to the time-saving apps on their phones. But along with convenience, ...

The Times of India' brings you 'Hack of the Day' — a new weekday-series of quick, practical solutions to everyday hassles.

Fraudsters have been registering an existing mobile number on a new SIM card that they buy from local shops pretending that they are the original owners. [iStockphoto] SIM swap fraud cases have ...

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 ...

The national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) has upheld a Kerala state consumer commission order holding Axis ...

Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation in Kericho County waylaid and arrested a suspect in a SIM card fraud investigation. David Mutai alias Hillary Langat has been on the run for ...