A jury has discovered Argishti Khudaverdyan, a former proprietor of a T-Cellular retailer, responsible of utilizing stolen credentials to unlock “lots of of 1000’s of cellphones” from August 2014 to June 2019 (by way of PCMag). In line with a press launch from the Division of Justice and an indictment filed earlier this yr, Khudaverdyan made round $25 million from the scheme, which additionally concerned bypassing service blocks placed on misplaced or stolen cell telephones.
For years, he reportedly used a number of ways to amass the T-Cellular worker credentials wanted to unlock telephones, together with phishing, social engineering, and even getting the service’s IT division to reset higher-ups’ passwords, giving him entry. The DOJ says he accessed over 50 workers’ credentials,…
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