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by andrerm 2448 days ago
SIM Swap [1] is not covered by this. SIM Swap is a social engineering attack powered by PII leaking from everywhere and for long time. Today, SIM Swap attackers don't even need to use phishing or buy PII from ilegal sources. After so many leaks, peoples full name, mother name, addresses, credit cards, SSNs are all over the internet. Just Google it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam

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Yeah, since that is NOT an attack against the SIM card (and code stored / running on the SIM card) but different issue completely.