simjacking
A social engineering technique in which a person poses as the owner of a mobile phone number and convinces the provider to transfer it to a new SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) owned by the fraudster.
Noun
- A social engineering technique in which a person poses as the owner of a mobile phone number and convinces the provider to transfer it to a new SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) owned by the fraudster.
- Over the past year, we’ve seen reports of SIM-jacking, a particularly malicious attack hackers are using to assume control of victims’ digital and financial lives. - 2018 October 17, Emil Hozan, “Everything Your Need to...
- Variously called sim splitting, simjacking, sim hijacking and port-out scamming, the fraud focuses on moving control of someone’s phone account from their sim card to one controlled by the criminal. - 2020 September 13,...
Origin
Blend of SIM + hijacking.