What Role Does Social Media Play in SIM Swap Fraud?
Social media plays an important role in SIM Swap fraud. Hackers execute the SIM Swap attack on social media successfully. Because many of the users in social media send personal information hackers easily steal your sensitive information and misuse it. Many individuals use the same passwords in every account, which will easily guess hackers and hijack your mobile phone. Some users share important or sensitive information in Instagram posts, Facebook posts, or any social media posts such as users sharing their pet names, and hackers mainly focus on these types of posts and extract their information that is used to hack the password and hijack the mobile phone.
How to Prevent Sim Swapping Attack?
In a sim swapping attack, the world sim means subscriber identity module that is present inside the phone so that we easily connect to the call, send text messages, etc. Sim swapping attacks happen when hackers hijack your SIM card or control your mobile phone. In this article, we will cover a brief explanation of the sim swapping attack and its prevention.