Welcome to the Tech Mem Bride Home for Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

T-Mobile and Verizon employees are being offered bribes for Sim swaps.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. This could be just random hacker activity, but I keep feeling like we're seeing strange strategic

hacks all of the sudden, suggesting someone nation-state- State E is maybe laying the groundwork for

something big. Current and former T-Mobile and Verizon employees say they are

receiving texts offering them up to $300 to perform a Sim swap.

T-Mobile says it is investigating, quoting bleeping computer.

According to many reports, this is part of a campaign targeted at current and former mobile carrier workers who could have access to the systems

required to perform a Sim swap.

Myself and a group of former employees all got the same message all from different numbers and with different verbiage one of the

targeted people said.

The attacker's messages claim the source of the contact information is an employee directory

as first spotted by the mobile report. I got your number from the T-Mobile Employee directory.

I'm looking to pay someone up to $300 per Sim swap.

Done.

If you're interested, reply and we can talk, the criminals say in the messages other texts seen by

bleeping computer requests employees contact the threat actor on telegram

if they are interested in the offer while it was initially believed that these

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