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SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/9868784

SIM swappers have adapted their attacks to steal a target's phone number by porting it into a new eSIM card, a digital SIM stored in a rewritable chip present on many recent smartphone models.

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I haven't had this kind of problem but I've had Google Fi since it was project Fi around 2017. And had a yubikee on my Google account for just as long. Wonder if that's why. I do remember back in the day losing an old Verizon flip phone and buying a new one in store. They didn't properly disconnect my account from the old phone and someone was deleting messages before I could read them etc for a solid month before Verizon figured it out. But that was like 2001? Things have changed quite a lot.