Globally, they would have put up for sale mobile phone numbers of almost 500 million users. The objective of cybercriminals is to perpetrate ‘smishing’ and ‘vishing’ attacks, impersonate other users and commit fraud.
Euskaraz irakurri: WhatsAppeko kontua duten Espainiako ia 11 milioi phone zenbaki lapurtu eta salgai jarri dituzte
According to a recent CyberNews publication, WhatsApp It would have been the target of cybercriminals who would have put up for sale mobile phone numbers of almost 500 million users around the world to use them in ‘smishing’ and ‘vishing’ attacks, as well as to impersonate other users and commit fraud .
According to the list of numbers affected by this attack provided by CyberNews, in Spain cyberfraudsters would have stolen a total of 10,894,206 WhatsApp phone numbers.
‘Smishing’ is a type of cyberthreat that consists of sending an SMS by a malicious actor “pretending to be a legitimate entity and with the aim of stealing private information or making a financial charge”, as defined by the Institute National Cybersecurity (INCIBE).
Vishing, for its part, is another type of social engineering scam via telephone with which these cybercriminals impersonate an organization or a natural person by making a call to obtain personal information.
Source: Eitb
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