SIM SWAP Attack!!! (Pt. 1)

You wake up in a bit of a daze, earlier than you would on a Monday morning before work. You reach over to check your phone for the time, it reads 4:50am. Through bleary eyes you see the top alert that reads something to the effect of "NO CELLULAR CONNECTION." The timestamp reads that this occured at 2:38am. Adrenaline takes a hold of your thought process and you check your email. Sign is successful and you see the last few emails you read 6hrs earlier, the usual spam email, social media alerts, ads for some furniture site you bought a blanket from 2 years ago. Then seemingly, gravity inverts. You start to get email alerts from your bank that money transfers have been initiated, new accounts have been made for crypto currency accounts and other services you've never heard of before. The weight of the world settles on you in direct and deliberate manner. After contacting your celluar provider, federal, state, and local authorities they provide little to no solutions to your plight. WHAT DO YOU DO?

Let's zoom out of this scenario and go through the practical steps first. This is battle field triage, if you're bleeding but awake: Time to stop the bleeding.

In the next post we'll take a look at CYBER TRIAGE & FRISTAID.