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.

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.

  • chunktoplane@beehaw.org
    3·
    8 months ago

    Good to see more coverage on how frail phone numbers are as a security layer, we need to push for more secure ways of doing 2FA.