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Indian Telco and Bank Ordered to Compensate SIM Swap Victim

All of the stolen money will now be refunded to the customer, more than three years after it was taken.

Last Chance to Bid in the Commsrisk Auction

Bids for advertising spaces on Commsrisk need to be made by the end of Thursday 24th January.

Subex Launches Cross-Vertical CrunchMetrics Brand

The new AI analytics brand will be marketed to the retail and fintech sectors alongside telecoms.

Reviewing the ETSI Billing Accuracy Standard

We need a good international standard for assuring charging accuracy. The revised ETSI 102 845 Technical Specification is based on sound concepts but also suffers crucial omissions.

32 Months of Prison for Hacker Who Knocked Liberia Offline

Daniel Kaye launched massive DDoS attacks at Liberian network Lonestar after being hired by rival telco Cellcom.

Should Social Networks Do More to Stop Account Takeover?

Not unless users do more to protect themselves.

Record Number of US File-Sharing Piracy Lawsuits

Two porn streaming businesses are responsible for lodging more than half of all copyright cases in the USA last year.

SIM Swappers Steal USD200k from South African Business

The Vodacom SIM of a businessman was targeted whilst he was overseas.

1,500 Articles and What Did We Learn?

I can only guess what people gained from my previous 1,499 articles for Commsrisk. However, I know what writing them has taught me about people.

Strong Speaker Line-Up for First RAG Conference in Middle East

Batelco, the leading operator in Bahrain, will host the Risk & Assurance Group on 23rd and 24th January.

15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites Seized by FBI

The criminal services had been used to launch hundreds of thousands of distributed denial of service attacks.

Nigerian Regulator Attacked for ‘Huge’ Revenue Loss

A lawyer's threats to the Nigerian Communications Commission have been used to justify hyperbolic media headlines about revenue losses.

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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