The Pizza Problem INVOLVES SIM swapping
The incident involved repeated attempts to take over Miles’s phone number through SIM swapping.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 97 Details
“someone SIM-swapped Miles’ phone number over to theirs”
Technique
technique:sim_swapping
Also: SIM hack, SIM swap, SIM swapping, SIM-swap, SIM-swap process, SIM-swapped, SIM-swaps, simming
Fraudulent transfer of a victim’s phone number to an attacker-controlled SIM, enabling interception of recovery texts and account takeover.
Fraudulent transfer of a victim’s phone number to an attacker-controlled SIM, enabling interception of recovery texts and account takeover.
“someone SIM-swapped Miles’ phone number over to theirs”
“The individual attempted a SIM hack”
Account-takeover technique in which an attacker impersonates a subscriber to move the victim’s phone number to another SIM or device.
“one big security flaw still with these phones is SIM-swapping.”
“impersonate you to tell them to move your phone number to their phone”
Fraudulent transfer of a victim’s phone number to an attacker-controlled phone or SIM to facilitate account recovery and takeover.
“someone had attempted to SIM-swap his phone number in order to gain access to his handle”
“SIM-swapping is when someone contacts your phone company pretending to be you”
Fraudulent transfer of a victim's mobile number to an attacker-controlled phone or SIM.
“SIM-swapping is when someone tricks the phone company to move your cell phone number to their phone.”
Technique involving transferring a victim’s mobile number to an attacker-controlled SIM to receive password-reset codes and access accounts.
“This is where you can try to take over someone’s phone so they could then reset the password on an e-mail account.”
“I’m getting a text directly to that phone in my hand”
A technique mentioned as a possible follow-on method for gaining control of a phone number or receiving account messages.
“There’s SIM-swapping and all of that that could happen after that”
Account-takeover technique referenced as a risk avoided by using a device without a SIM card.
“that means nobody can SIM-swap you”
Fraudulently transferring a victim’s phone number to another SIM card in order to receive calls and authentication codes.
“The thing he saw some people doing was SIM swapping.”
“Once that’s done, your phone number is now mine.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | USES | Credential stuffing | Explicit | 112 |
| outgoing | USES | Telegram | Explicit | 112 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | The Pizza Problem | Explicit | 97 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | Michael Turpin cryptocurrency theft | Derived | 112 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Baby Al Capone | Attributed | 112 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | James O’Connor | Attributed | 112 |
| incoming | USES | Joseph Harris | Explicit | 118 |
| incoming | USES | Conor Freeman | Explicit | 154 |
The Pizza Problem INVOLVES SIM swapping
The incident involved repeated attempts to take over Miles’s phone number through SIM swapping.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 97 Details
“someone SIM-swapped Miles’ phone number over to theirs”
SIM swapping USES Credential stuffing
Drew describes SIM-swappers using reused credentials from databases to identify and access Coinbase accounts.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Drew EP 112 Details
“They’re using commons from databases, getting into Coinbase – this is all automated – and then they get their balance; they had SIM-swapped them”
SIM swapping USES Telegram
SIM-swapping operations are organized through Telegram channels and chats.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details
“They all get organized inside a Telegram chat room”
“people on Telegram aren’t the type of person to go run into a store”
Michael Turpin cryptocurrency theft INVOLVES SIM swapping
The theft of Michael Turpin's cryptocurrency is described as following the SIM-swapping process discussed in the episode.
Derived Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details
“someone did the steps you just heard to hack into Turpin’s crypto wallet and steal $23 million worth of crypto out of it”
Baby Al Capone ASSOCIATED_WITH SIM swapping
Jack identifies Baby Al Capone as a person who allegedly stole cryptocurrency through SIM-swapping-related activity, while the episode does not provide a fuller identity claim.
Attributed Confidence 88% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details
“There’s a guy, goes by the nickname Baby Al Capone; he stole $20 million in cryptocurrency”
“This guy was just fifteen years old when he was arrested”
James O’Connor ASSOCIATED_WITH SIM swapping
Jack says authorities accused James O’Connor, also known as PlugWalkJoe, of stealing cryptocurrency through SIM-swapping.
Attributed Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details
“Then there’s PlugWalkJoe, James O’Connor. He was twenty-two, living in the UK, when he was arrested for SIM-swapping”
“Authorities say he stole over $700,000 doing this”
Joseph Harris USES SIM swapping
Joseph learned and used SIM-swapping to take over phones and reset email passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Harris EP 118 Details
“I started dabbling with it”
“I’m getting a text directly to that phone in my hand”
Conor Freeman USES SIM swapping
Conor describes using social engineering and carrier processes to transfer victims’ phone numbers to replacement SIM cards.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Conor Freeman EP 154 Details
“I have a replacement SIM card here. If I give you the ISE ID, can you swap my SIM over to this card?”