Risk, Fraud & Security

100,000 SIM cards were also seized.

The MNO continued to fight victims of SIM swap crime in court despite 27,000 unauthorized SIM swaps between 2016 and February 2020.

The Swiss NCSC believes a fake base station is being used for a typical SMS blaster scam while South Korea's government believes a base station was used to intercept 2FA SMS messages meant for the victims of a recent fraud.

It is good that telcos are now publicly talking about scams. It would be better to independently monitor how effectively they block them.

There are striking similarities between the methods used in this case and how fake base stations have previously been used in China and the Philippines.

There are a lot of crazy people in the USA. Some of them are running the USA.

The messages sent by these fake base stations impersonated Vietcombank and Vietnam Post.

She was allegedly paid RMB100,000 (USD13,950) for the boy.

A new bipartisan bill from Senators Ruben Gallego and Jim Justice would give consumers the right to an alternative to international telemarketing calls and hence challenge assumptions about how to tackle cross-border scams.

A new report from the Communications Risk Information Centre (COMRiC) outlines a potential national strategy for risk, resilience and security.

Close examination of photographs suggest the same kind of equipment was being used in both Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. Police are also stepping up in the UK.

Interrogation of the drivers of the Mazda stopped by the previous week's joint operation between police and mobile operator AIS prompted a follow-on investigation that found a fake base station in a Suzuki rented by a Chinese crime boss.