{"id":216977,"date":"2025-07-02T02:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/att-rolls-out-wireless-lock-feature-to-block-sim-swap-attacks"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:10:29","slug":"att-rolls-out-wireless-lock-feature-to-block-sim-swap-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/att-rolls-out-wireless-lock-feature-to-block-sim-swap-attacks","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T rolls out \u201cWireless Lock\u201d feature to block SIM swap attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/att-rolls-out-wireless-lock-feature-to-block-sim-swap-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T has launched a new security feature called \u201cWireless Lock\u201d that protects customers from SIM swapping attacks by preventing changes to their account information and the porting of phone numbers while the feature is enabled.<\/p>\n<p>This new feature has been available for some customers for almost a year and has now been rolled out to all AT&amp;T customers.<\/p>\n<p>SIM swap attacks are when cybercriminals port, or move, a targeted phone number to a device under their control. This allows them to intercept the target\u2019s calls, texts, and multi-factor authentication codes to breach further accounts, such as email, banking, and cryptocurrency wallets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T has launched a new security feature called \u201cWireless Lock\u201d that protects customers from SIM swapping attacks by preventing changes to their account information and the porting of phone numbers while the feature is enabled. This new feature has been available for some customers for almost a year and has now been rolled out to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,45,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-finance","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}