T-Mobile AT&T Verizon Hacked SIM Swapped are you SAFE or Scammed?
A scammer or hacker can now use your hijacked phone number to: 1. steal cryptocurrency, stocks, or other assets 2. maliciously delete all of your data or expose it 3. take over your vanity Instagram username or other social media accounts 4. do more phishing via the contact information on SIM and open accounts in […]
Suits Dump Verizon (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) aka Hedge Funds
There is not a shortage of news stories covering failed hedge fund investments and it is a fact that hedge funds’ picks don’t beat the market 100% of the time, but their consensus picks have historically done very well and have outperformed the market after adjusting for risk. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) was in […]
CO Energy Company DMEA Cyber Attacked 25 Years of Data Wiped
Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) suffered a malicious cyberattack that shut down 90% of its internal controls and wiped 25 years of historical data. The energy company warned customers would start receiving multiple energy bills close together but promised not to disconnect services for non-payment or impose penalties until January 31, 2022. Cyberattack on a Colorado […]
Florida 30k Healthcare Workers Personal Data Exposed | efani
Ethical hackers discovered the names, addresses, social security numbers, and tax information of more than 30,000 healthcare workers in a database run by Gale Healthcare Solutions. More than 30,000 US healthcare workers’ personal information was recently exposed due to a non-password-protected database, according to security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and a team of ethical hackers with […]
Language Pattern Analysis to Detect Social Network Attacks
Sontiq BreachIQ Data Breach Report: Week of Nov. 22 · Is Ransomware a Technology Pandemic in the Making? 8 Security Developments to be Thankful Attacks by scammers appear to make sophisticated use of language ideology to abuse trust relationships. Language that indexes Africans allows perceived “authenticity” to be constructed in a way that breaks down […]
Hackers hit Robinhood (HOOD) Biggest Brokerage Vishing Attack | efani
Vishing attack update: The call was coming from inside the company. Or so it seemed when the mobile phone of a customer-service representative for Robinhood Markets Inc. lit up on the evening of Nov. 3, 2021. More than an hour passed and the conversation went on and on. The caller reeled in the hapless employee. […]
Roblox Suing Player $1.6 million Fraud Breach Contract | efani Partner TheNFG.com
The lawsuit claims YouTuber leads a “cybermob” that terrorizes Roblox and its staff, seeks $1.6 million in damages Roblox has filed a lawsuit against a player who was permanently banned from its platform, claiming he has been harassing and threatening both the company’s staff & events. The complaint was filed in the Northern District of […]
efani | Crypto Cell Phone SIM Port Hijacking Identity Theft
SIM/PORT SWAP IDENTITY THEFT “SIM swapping” (also known as “SIM hijacking”) is a growing crime and form of identity theft in the telecommunications world that requires little more than a thorough Google search, a willing telecommunications carrier representative, and an electronic or in-person impersonation of the victim. To perpetuate the theft, the cellphone service provider […]
efani.net News | T-Mobile to Settle 2020 Outage for $19.5 Million
T-Mobile USA agreed to settle a U.S. probe for $19.5 million after a massive 2020 outage led to more than 20,000 failed 911 emergency calls. The settlement was prompted by a Federal Communications Commission investigation into a more than 12-hour outage in June 2020 that led to congestion across No. 3 wireless carrier T-Mobile’s networks, […]
efani.net | 3 Quad-Cities municipalities victim to cyber attacks
Scammers pretending to be Brandt Construction emailed a city of Rock Island accountant to update automatic payment information. After the fraudsters returned a form, the accountant called their company contact to confirm, following the city’s usual practices, only to discover it was fake. Scammers, that time, weren’t paid. In Bettendorf, the city’s human resources director […]