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Ransomware criminals use children’s phone numbers to coerce payments from parents

Ransomware criminals use children’s phone numbers to coerce payments from parents

Speaking at a Google Security Threat Intelligence Panel at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco (via The Reg), Charles Carmakal, CTO of Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, said, “We saw situations where threat actors essentially SIM swap the phones of children of executives, and start making phone calls to executives,…

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