They are said to have offered mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million users for sale worldwide. The goal of cybercriminals is to perform “smishing” and “vishing” attacks, impersonate other users, and commit fraud.
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According to a recent CyberNews publication, WhatsApp It was allegedly targeted by cybercriminals who allegedly sold the mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million users around the world to use in ‘smishing’ and ‘vishing’ attacks, impersonation and fraud. to commit.
According to the list of numbers affected by this attack from CyberNews, cyber fraudsters in Spain are said to have stolen a total of 10,894,206 WhatsApp phone numbers.
“Smishing” is a form of cyber threat that consists of the sending of a text message by a malicious person “impersonating a legitimate entity and for the purpose of stealing private information or making a financial claim”, as defined by the Institute of National Cybersecurity (INCIBE).
Vishing, for its part, is another type of social engineering phone scam that allows these cybercriminals to impersonate an organization or a natural person by calling to obtain personal information.
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Source: EITB
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