SIM Swapping

Tech

Bloodied Macbooks and Stacks of Cash: Inside the Increasingly Violent Discord Servers Where Kids Flaunt Their Crimes

06.20.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

On-the-Run Hacker Who Allegedly Breached Federal Cop Database Arrested in Florida

03.16.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

‘Nobody is Safe’: In Wild Hacking Spree, Hackers Accessed Federal Law Enforcement Database

03.15.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Alleged SIM Swapper Ransomed Instagram Influencer for Dates, Striptease Video

02.13.23

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Firebombs and Shootings: The Rise of IRL Harassment and Violence as a Service

09.14.22

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Hacker Steals Database of Hundreds of Verizon Employees

05.26.22

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

How Roblox ‘Beamers’ Get Rich Stealing from Children

02.14.22

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Researcher Found Way to Brute Force Verizon Customer PINs Online

12.03.21

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice

10.20.21

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

The FCC Wants to Force Wireless Carriers to Finally Stop SIM Hijacking

09.30.21

By Karl Bode
Tech

Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations

09.20.21

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Swatter Who Caused Man’s Death Over @Tennessee Twitter Handle Is Going to Prison

07.21.21

By Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox

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Life

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Music

Why Snoop Dogg ‘Chose No Sides’ in the Kendrick Lamar-Drake Beef

Snoop chose not to get involved in the Kendrick Lamar-Drake, beef but does believe that Kendrick’s song “Not Like Us” united “the West.”

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Life

‘AI Jesus’ Is Now Taking Confessions at a Church in Switzerland

AI Jesus has logged on.

11.21.24

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Jay-Z’s Team Roc Sues Kansas Police for Corruption and Abuse Records

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