Category: Star Fraud
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SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years
SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025…
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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew
A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely…