SIM swap attack

Jeez, all those names are terrible

... was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for his role in a SIM swapping operation that stole approximately $200,000 in cryptocurrency from four victims in early November of '21.

Uh, the criminals hijacked victims' BT phone numbers onto SIMs under their control to intercept SMS one time passcodes, uh-

Sure

That's not a fruit.

The thing that worries me is this, you know, because two factor authentication, there's now SIM swapping, right? So scammers are hijacking your phone number and then suddenly the text message codes that are protecting you and your bank and your brokerage go to them.

You can actually lock down your SIM with whatever carrier you have.

You can call them and say, I want to lock this down so no one will be able to move it.

It's not going to your text message or it's not going to your phone.

It's going to an app that's on your local device.

So with SIM swapping, it doesn't matter because you have to have your physical device as an authenticator app.

Okay, asking for a friend.