In August, 20 -year -old Noah Michael Urban Was 10 years sentence in federal jail for a series of crimes Sim swapping simMore information has now appeared about this cyber criminal, which Cheat AT & T And T Mobile Employees to harm their customers.
Noah was not a hacker, but a highly skilled social engineer. He received staff credentials to break into confidential systems. He stole information to achieve unauthorized access to the victims’ cryptocurrency accounts.
In a long report published by BloombergWe have been told how easy it was for teenagers without coding skills to conduct sim swap attacks. These attacks allow criminals to transfer a victim’s phone number to a SIM card, which allows them to reach the multi-factor authentication code, which are required to certify the log-in.
Noah was a member of the notorious cyber criminal group scattered Spider, who attacked and overthrew a dozen companies in the US and Britain.
Born in 2004, Noah first heard of Sim Swapping when she was 15 years old, through those when she met while playing Minecraft. He was well aware of the art of cheating carrier employees to fulfill his orders. He served as a collar for the scattered spider and paid $ 3,000 by a gang leader in his first week, using his convergent skills to cheat the victims in disclosing personal information to the victims.
He was very good, very good, the employees were very good in exchange of the afflicted phone numbers and obtaining personal information on people so that he could commit the crime.
-Douglas Olson, Special Agent Incharge
Noah was a friend with Daniel Junk, who was sentenced to steal millions of dollars in Cryptocurrency using sim swapping last year. They were part of a group known as Com, which was associated with the scattered spider.
The members of the com contacted those whom they considered the “easiest-to-flower” AT and T And T Mobile Call center staff. He hired the children to steal the iPads of the representatives of the phone store.
The junk learned how to register his personal computer T MobileUse networks and remote-access software to reach your sim-activation tool. He will remain logged in for months, only when you will lose access T Mobile Through him out.
Noah was hired by junk to call the store staff and was talked about handing over to his login details. He pretended to be an information technology employee on these calls, who was reading a script junk prepared.
Finally, Noah began to appoint his own callers, paying them somewhere between $ 60 and $ 1,000 for a successful login, depending on the level of security in the company. Those who assured employees to set up a remote-access tools were paid as $ 4,000.
By 2022, Noah was already a millionaire. The nature of his crimes continued to develop until one of them finally raided his house and a year later, his arrest in 2024.
Police seized almost “$ 4 million in Cryptocurrency, $ 100,000 cash, and $ 100,000 jewelry”. He was under the FBI’s radar since 2021, when he was marked as “low-level participant in SIM Swapping”.
Even though he had no technical skills, he was recognized as one of the top swappers by the law enforcement agencies. Investigators said that he was expert to swap the phone number to the employees and get sensitive information.
Noah was accused of hacking 13 companies AT & T, T-Mobile and VerizonHe convicted, and his lawyer tried to defend them by claiming that they were influenced by the old co-speculators, and that SIM swapping appeared more like a game than a serious crime for him. To talk to him, the lawyer highlighted that even the big corporations AT and T And T Mobile The teenage was excluded by children.
… But there were 500 companies such as AT&T and T-Mobiles, which were essentially cheated by a group of teenage children.
-Kathrin Sheldon, Noah’s lawyer
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