Piracy via SIM card is more and more popular

A new SIM card hacking case is talked about in the United States and shows that this technique is now within everyone's reach since it was a teenager who had set up a small network, that the authorities have arrested.

New Sim card hacking

Les autorités de Floride ont vu leur enquête sur des escroqueries s’accélérer brutalement après un simple coup de téléphone d’une mère qui s’inquiétait des activités de son fils, après l’avoir entendu se faire passer pour un employé de la firme de télécommunication AT&T.

The police therefore made a short visit to the person concerned and got their hands on many SIM cards and information connecting it to a network of hackers, which was notably Ricky Handschumacher.The latter explained on Discord the method to carry out a hacking by SIM card.A technique that seemed to work for him since he would have stolen at least 100.000 dollars.

Among the SIM cards discovered in the teenager's room, at least 7 would be connected to seven victims of theft on their bank accounts or cryptocurrencies, in several states.

How does SIM card hack, bypassing double -factor authentication?

One might think that identification with two factors via SMS is secure since it is democratized everywhere and that we say that a thief cannot steal us, without our phone.In reality double factor authentication is fragile and there are several ways to get around it.SIM card hacking is precisely one ...

With or without an accomplice within an operator, it is enough to have a double of SIM card sent by claiming a breakdown or the desire to have a nano SIM, after having collected some basic information on a person to perform therequest.Once this double in hand, the hacker can take steps on the internet and receive the verification sms to complete his mischief.Hackers can also crack any password connected to the phone and access any online service.

It is roughly the summary of this hacking, which works relatively well, since some victims have been lightened by half a million dollars of cryptocurrencies.

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