Every GSM phone needs a SIM card, and you'd think such a ubiquitous standard would be immune to any hijack attempts. Evidently not, as Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs -- who found a hole in GSM ...

The Justice Department recently, quietly unsealed an indictment that some mainstream and crypto media platforms quickly picked up and reported as charges that “solved” the mystery of a $400 million ...

Millions of mobile phones may be vulnerable to spying due to the use of outdated, 1970s-era cryptography, according to new research due to be presented at the Black Hat security conference. Karsten ...

Michael Terpin, a prominent bitcoin investor, had sued the leader of a ‘SIM swap gang’ after they stole $23.8 million in bitcoin from his precious wallet. Reading time 2 minutes A young man who was ...

A flaw with mobile phones' Sim card technology is putting millions of people at risk of being spied on and robbed, according to a leading security expert. Karsten Nohl has said he has found a way to ...

Spy agencies allegedly hacked into the computer systems of a foreign commercial company to steal secrets that would allow them to tap into over a quarter of the world's cell phones. Late last week, ...

PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. and British spies are likely to have hacked into SIM card maker Gemalto in an attempt to steal codes that protect the privacy of billions of mobile phone users, the ...

SK Telecom has been ordered to compensate victims of a SIM card hacking incident with 100,000 Korean won per person. On the 21st, the Korea Consumer Agency Consumer Dispute Settlement Committee stated ...

Your phone number may be the key to your bank account as many scammers are using a new technique called SIM hacking. In a TikTok with over 1.2 million views, creator lex.and.her.pen (@lex.and.her.pen) ...

* Gemalto press release: gemalto presents the findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of sim card encryption keys by britain's government communications headquarters (gchq)and the u.s.