{"id":182111,"date":"2024-10-08T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-confidential-report-exposes-rising-threat-of-sim-swapping-in-liberia\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:19:11","slug":"liberia-confidential-report-exposes-rising-threat-of-sim-swapping-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-confidential-report-exposes-rising-threat-of-sim-swapping-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Confidential Report Exposes Rising Threat of SIM Swapping in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Monrovia \u2014 A confidential report has obtained by <em>The Liberian Investigator<\/em> reveals sharp rise in SIM swapping attacks in Liberia, exposing high-profile individuals and businesses to financial and data theft. The attacks, according to the report, are exploiting weak security measures in mobile networks, with Lonestar Cell MTN&#8217;s app identified as a key vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">SIM swapping involves deceiving mobile network operators into transferring a victim&#8217;s phone number to a SIM card under the control&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410080180.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 A confidential report has obtained by The Liberian Investigator reveals sharp rise in SIM swapping attacks in Liberia, exposing high-profile individuals and businesses to financial and data theft. The attacks, according to the report, are exploiting weak security measures in mobile networks, with Lonestar Cell MTN&#8217;s app identified as a key vulnerability. SIM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,19703,10481,4712,1107,257,5144,6678,27552,254,49706,6791],"class_list":["post-182111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confidential","tag-exposes","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-report","tag-rising","tag-sim","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapping","tag-threat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}