CLICK HERE: Throwing Bricks for $$$: Violence-as-a-Service Comes of Age

(September 20, 2022) Young people who have been making millions hacking mobile phones — known as SIM swappers — have found a new way to intimidate and harass their rivals. They call it “violence-as-a-service” or “IRL jobs,” and it includes a Telegram channel where they can order brickings, firebombings, and even shootings in the real world. More: therecord.media/mobile-phone-hackers-wield-violenc… Subscribe: clickhereshow.com/ Every Tuesday, CLICK HERE tells stories about the people and ideas shaping our digital world. We go beyond the headlines, taking listeners on a journey behind-the-scenes of some of today’s biggest cyber and intelligence news. Hosted by former NPR Investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston, CLICK HERE pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of ransomware, disinformation campaigns, and cyber operations and helps listeners protect themselves from our adversaries in cyberspace.

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