This keeps happening to cryptocurrency enthusiasts, but is a well-worn attack within the capabilities of a non-technical teenager. https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-most-expensive-lesson-of-my-life-details-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124 … Take your phone number off your Gmail/etc accounts and use hardware or TOTP 2FA.
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Incidentally, while the cryptocurrency community provides easy one-stop-shopping for high-value targets, once criminals develop a business process to exploit this they could plausibly expand into adjacent markets. This *very much* includes startup founders, etc.
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Ideally you do business with financial institutions which will not just give all the money irreversibly to anyone capable of spoofing your cell phone but strongly consider defense-in-depth against attacks like this. Some friends/acquaintances of mine had near misses to similar.
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At the risk of getting close to socially contentious topics: there exist *some* banks and brokerages which will respect an account note "No account actions or transfers above
$Xk unless I am standing in front of you in the office." You may want that service level someday.3 replies 0 retweets 32 likesShow this thread -
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I wish there was a way to tell cell providers, google, etc the same thing. “Enable high security annoyance” toggle or something.
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This is a thing for Google and I think many, many people I know should be in it.https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/ …
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