Voice termination service theft

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Perhaps the most worrying is service theft. This allows the attacker to make calls while passing the cost onto someone else. The most common way of doing this is via credential theft. It’s therefore essential to ensure that employees are alert to the risk of phishing attacks that may seek to obtain their login IDs.

Attackers can also try to obtain IDs list of hong kong whatsapp phone numbers via eavesdropping. This potentially allows not just the ability to make calls, but also to access voicemail or change forwarding options, in addition to allowing the theft of sensitive data. With access to an admin account, a hacker could also be able to change calling plans or add extra call time to a victim’s account.

Vishing attacks
Vishing is a type of phishing that applies specifically to phone users, not necessarily just VoIP. It is carried out by an attacker calling pretending to be from a trustworthy organisation, such as a bank, in order to try to obtain confidential information such as account access codes.

These attacks use social engineering techniques to lure the victims into a false sense of security. The attackers make considerable efforts to sound professional and convincing. We all like to think we are too smart to fall for scams like this, but the scammers are clever and will build confidence by quoting details including your name and address which you would expect legitimate callers to have. They will also seek to worry you by talking about suspicious transactions on your account or orders for expensive products that you haven’t made.