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Get personal info, then call carrier for a SIM swap, access crypto from there. Bonus: no KYC, since it's the other person's identity + you can login from 4G internet, so a trusted IP range.


Where can I get this though?

I haven't been able to get into my main Google account for years because they enabled 2FA without warning and it had a phone number I no longer have. I have the username and password and I get all the emails because I also have the recovery email address. I just need to get the recovery code by SMS.


What can be done to protect oneself from a SIM swap attack?


Absolutely nothing whatsoever.

If SIM Swap doesn’t work, you can always attack SS7. There’s also nothing you can do about that.

So stop using your phone number as an authentication factor. It’s trivial to pwn for any actor determined-enough.




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