Fraudsters impersonate victims to obtain replacement SIM cards from their carriers and receive banking security codes, says Trusteer
IDG News Service - Cybercriminals are impersonating victims in order to obtain replacement SIM cards from their mobile carriers, which they then use to defeat phone-based Internet banking protections, security vendor Trusteer said in a blog post.
Trusteer researchers have recently seen variants of the Gozi online banking Trojan injecting rogue Web forms into online banking sessions to trick victims into exposing their phone's IMEI (international mobile equipment identity) number, in addition to other personal and security information.
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