{"id":10912,"date":"2022-02-11T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/spanish-authorities-dismantle-sim-swapping-gang\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:33:09","slug":"spanish-authorities-dismantle-sim-swapping-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/spanish-authorities-dismantle-sim-swapping-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Authorities Dismantle SIM Swapping Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span><span>Spanish authorities this week announced they arrested eight individuals that were part of a fraud ring that employed SIM swapping to compromise bank accounts.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><span>The suspects used phishing and impersonation to obtain the personal information of potential victims and then proceeded to take over online banking accounts to steal money.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/spanish-authorities-dismantle-sim-swapping-gang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?a=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/securityweek?i=_kgPKhuo6fM:LOggCBYrjig:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish authorities this week announced they arrested eight individuals that were part of a fraud ring that employed SIM swapping to compromise bank accounts. The suspects used phishing and impersonation to obtain the personal information of potential victims and then proceeded to take over online banking accounts to steal money. read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybercrime","category-fraud-identity-theft","category-news-industry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}