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U Mobile has introduced SIM-based Phone Number Verification (PNV) on its ULTRA5G network, allowing businesses and app developers to verify a user’s mobile number instead of relying on SMS one-time password (OTP).
Summary
The solution provides a more secure way to verify a user’s phone number since SMS OTP is not encrypted and can be phished […]
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Phishing and credential-based attacks succeed because they target people, not just infrastructure, technical controls like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC only ever close part of that gap. The rest comes down to whether a team can actually spot the fake, and whether a compromised credential can still be reused anywhere else.
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