The Commsrisk articles that are most likely to overperform are those which describe a troubling development in the global communications sector that has received little or no coverage outside of a single country or a narrow circle of industry insiders. September’s audience statistics confirmed this tendency, with a huge influx of visitors wanting to know about the arrest of a suspected fraudster who drove an IMSI-catcher around the two biggest cities in Norway. The interest in this article had a knock-on effect as readers then clicked through to older articles about IMSI-catchers being used for fraud in Vietnam and France. The risk of similar crimes seemingly holds no interest for most of the world’s news media, including the journalists who present themselves as focused on the latest trends in cybercrime. Law enforcement agencies are also letting us down by taking no preemptive steps to address the danger. This should be of concern to everybody, not least because such crimes may already be occurring in other cities around the world without the public having been warned in advance.
The following articles are ranked by the number of unique page visits during September.
- Oslo IMSI-Catcher Arrest: Suspected Malaysian Spy Now Investigated for Fraud ‘with International Ramifications’
- At Last, a Bank that Authenticates Its Call to You
- 1,207 Chinese Scam Suspects Arrested and Deported from Myanmar
- SIM Swap Social Engineering of T-Mobile Staff Blamed for $691,000 NFT Heist
- Criminal Gangs Drive IMSI-Catcher SMS Blasters around Vietnam
- i3forum to Begin Talks with National Regulators about Multilateral CLI Validation
- Big US Call Analytics Firms Hiya and TNS Blasted for Conflict of Interest over Incorrect Spam Labels
- The Story of a $24mn SIM Swap
- Top Lawyer Says Indian Takeover of US Anti-Spam SMS Registry Is Threat to National Security
- Paris IMSI-Catcher Mistaken for Bomb Was Actually Used for Health Insurance SMS Phishing Scam
