Now forgot cryptojacking, hacking SIM is now going to become the most attractive method to hackers "get rich" not from the pre-encrypted segment are increasingly attracting more investment.
A 20-year-old college student from Boston, Massachusetts, has been arrested in California for allegedly being a member of a group of hackers who hacked a number of other people's phones before stealing more than $ 5 million. Bitcoin and many other types of money.
According to information from the motherboard, the number of mobile phones that student Joel Ortiz and his colleagues acquired by using a "SIM swap" by the number 40. In this way, Networkers will be tricked into transferring data and connections that involve the victim's phone number to a SIM card that is under the control of criminals. Once they have the phone number, they will try to reset their password and access the online e-money accounts of the investor.
"Tell her to give Bitcoin to us!"
Ortiz and his hackers have targeted the big players in the Blockchain segment and digital currency. Ortiz is allegedly deprived to $ 1.5 million from a Blockchain businessman. Court documents reveal that when Ortiz obtained the phone number, he had reset the password for the email address and used it to access the trading account on the exchange.This criminal gang hunt started when an unnamed victim reported to the police that his phone number had been misappropriated. This person has been targeted by Ortiz several times earlier this year, even hacking his wife's phone to pressure and text his daughter to lure him out.
"Heavenly grid"
With the help of AT & T, the investigators were able to collect the IMEI number of the phone used by the hackers. Next, they had access to their email accounts to record their criminal activity.Ortiz used electronic trading platforms including Binance, Bittrex and Coinbase. Police also said they had evidence that the student had directly "dispersed" more than $ 1 million electronic money.
Joel Ortiz was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on his way to Europe, according to a source close to the investigation, who also claimed at the time of the police investigation he had left. was wearing a Gucci bag after spending a lot of extra money spent. allegedly stolenThe young hacker is facing 28 criminal charges: 13 allegations of identity theft, 13 allegations of cyber attacks, and 2 accusations of theft.
Assume technical support to go scam
The problem of fraud in the digital currency segment has grown rapidly over the past year, not just in the form of SIM hacking. Earlier, the FBI published a statement warning the growing blight of scam cases that were labeled as "technical support fraud".
" Criminals will pretend to be a technical support team from the trading floors. Users accidentally contacted them through fake phone numbers appearing on the open source search engine. The 'worm' will ask the victim for access to an electronic wallet to transfer money to another wallet for maintenance. The money will go away without a return, and the criminal quickly cut off all contact. "