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 ...

Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the hack that led its X account to prematurely post about the approval of bitcoin ETFs earlier this month was the result of a "SIM swap ...

The SEC said that a SIM swap was used to take control of its X account in a hack that led to an early post announcing bitcoin ETFs that Chair Gary Gensler clarified was unauthorized earlier this month ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday that a SIM swap attack was to blame for the breach of its official account on X, formerly known as Twitter, earlier this month. Stream San ...

The SEC had multifactor authentication enabled six months prior to the hack, but it was disabled by X Support following a request by an SEC staff member, the securities regulator revealed. The United ...

The hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, earlier this month was the result of a “SIM swap” attack, an agency spokesperson said ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. On 9 January the official @SECGov account was hacked and used ...

The founders behind Manifold Trading and Rug Radio have confirmed they were recently targeted in SIM-swap attacks. SIM-swap attacks have ramped up in the week leading to Christmas, with the founders ...