Cryptocurrency Identity Theft Wireless 
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies into giving away credentials needed to remotely access and modify customer account information. Prosecutors say Jordan K.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. T-Mobile offers two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services to impacted customers.
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Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
resident Ahmad Wagaafe Hared and Matthew Gene Ditman of Las Vegas were part of a group that specialized in tricking or bribing representatives at the major wireless providers into giving them control over phone numbers belonging to people they later targeted for extortion and theft. Winblo’s account on ogusers[.]com
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 19, 2022
On Telegram, the Aspertaine/Couch alias frequented several popular SIM-swapping channels, where they initially were active as a “holder” — a low-level but key SIM-swapping group member who agrees to hold stolen cryptocurrency after an account takeover is completed.
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. 2020 saw a record number of ransomware attacks, and we can expect more of the same in 2021. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.
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