Risk, Fraud & Security
EU Boldly Considers Doing Something about 5G Security
If security and innovation were driven by empty talk then the EU would be the world leaders they pretend to be.
Are You Still Using Risk Matrices?
More and more experts have pointed out the flaws in risk matrices, also known as heat maps. Telcos should have adopted better ways of presenting and ranking risks by now.
Another Surprisingly Large Fraud Estimate
Absurdly exaggerated statistics are more likely to damage professional credibility than increase vendor sales.
7 Arrests Following Vodacom South Africa SIM Swaps
Vodacom has pursued its investigation for years but none of its employees have been arrested.
Fraudsters Make Mystery Music for Spotify
Spotify refuse to comment about whether they paid musicians whose songs were only played because user playlists had been hacked.
Hungary and Luxembourg Suffer Wangiri Surges
Operators in the Telenor and Orange groups have been warning customers about wangiri.
10 Year Prison Sentence for US SIM Swapper; Another Indicted
Californian prosecutors will send a SIM swapper to prison whilst New York launches its first SIM swap prosecution.
Women’s Website Blames Facebook Quizzes for SIM Swaps
A lousy journalist pieced together half-truths about social media and privacy in the hope of sustaining the UK's SIM swap panic.
Is There a Rising Problem with Allocated but Unused Number Ranges?
Biaas argues fraudsters exploit destinations on carrier price lists which cannot be used for normal international termination.
China Keeps Extraditing Telecoms Fraudsters
The People's Republic of China extradited scammers from Bangladesh, Cambodia and the Philippines during 2018. Tensions with Taiwan stopped them from extraditing more.
Now SIM Swaps Are Fake News Too
Liars are using social media to spread myths about the way fraudsters take control of phone accounts.
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.
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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