Wu Shuo learned that the U.S. Department of Justice disclosed that British citizen Tyler Robert Buchanan has pleaded guilty to participating in SMS phishing attacks from September 2021 to April 2023, compromising the systems of at least a dozen companies and stealing information, then bypassing two-factor authentication via SIM swapping and other methods to gain control of victims' cryptocurrency accounts and wallets, stealing at least $8 million in crypto assets from multiple individual victims in the United States. He has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, facing a maximum of 22 years in federal prison; several co-defendants in the case remain pending trial. https://t.co/PHNlBKcYlC

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