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Criminals are now texting T-Mobile and Verizon employees on their personal and work phones, trying to tempt them with cash to perform SIM swaps. The targeted employees have shared screenshots of messages offering $300 to those willing to aid the senders in their criminal endeavors.
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Tens of thousands of U.S. customers from Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are complaining Thursday morning about the lack of wireless service or interruptions to service. According to data from problem tracking site Downdetector more than 73,000 AT&T customers from multiple states - including North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, reported a lack of service.
Verizon is notifying more than 63,000 people, mostly current employees, that an insider, accidentally or otherwise, had inappropriate access to their personal data. At the heart of the drama: A Verizon employee apparently obtained a file that they shouldn't have had access to, containing personal information including: names, addresses, Social Security numbers or other national identifiers, gender, union affiliation, dates of birth, and compensation information.
Verizon Communications is warning that an insider data breach impacts almost half its workforce, exposing sensitive employee information.A data breach notification shared with the Office of the Maine Attorney General reveals that a Verizon employee gained unauthorized access to a file containing sensitive employee information on September 21, 2023.
The importance of mapping CIS Controls to Verizon's incident classifications. The mapping of CIS Controls to Verizon's incident classifications presents organizations with an opportunity to optimize their security resources by aligning them with real-world security incidents.
The study, which tracked incidents occurring between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2022, found that BEC attacks doubled and represented more than 50% of social engineering attacks. According to the study, the practice, which is commonly used in BEC attacks, doubled in volume compared to the prior year's.
Verizon Business today released the results of its 16th annual Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed 16,312 security incidents and 5,199 breaches. Chief among its findings is the soaring cost of ransomware - malicious software that encrypts an organization's data and extorts large sums of money to restore access.
Verizon has notified some prepaid customers that their accounts were compromised and their phone numbers potentially hijacked by crooks via SIM swaps. From there, the crooks could access the personal info in an account and perform a SIM swap.
Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. "Using the last four digits of that credit card, the third party was able to gain access to your Verizon account and may have processed an unauthorized SIM card change on the prepaid line that received the SMS linking to this notice. If a SIM card change occurred, Verizon has reversed it."