InfoSec News Nuggets 6/26/2025

Cybercriminals Abuse Open-Source Tools To Target Africa’s Financial Sector Unit 42 researchers have been monitoring a series of attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa. We assess that the threat actor may be gaining initial access to these financial institutions and then selling it to others on the dark web. Since at least July 2023, a cluster of activity we track as CL-CRI-1014 has targeted this sector. The attackers employ a consistent playbook, using a combination…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 3/16/2024

Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1,000 A former manager at a telecommunications company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for accepting money to perform unauthorized SIM swaps that enabled an accomplice to hack customer accounts. SIM swapping is an unauthorized porting of a targeted person's phone number to another physical SIM card or eSIM chip controlled by the attacker. These types of attacks are usually conducted via social engineering attacks against…
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