Many have read the headlines of law enforcement around the world dismantling “SIM Farms”, but few understand what “SIM Farms” are. This session will dive into the wild world of telephony abuse, and how SIM Farms are the framework for a myriad of illicit activity. Such examples: renting numbers to defeat 2FA/OTP authentication, utilizing virtual numbers to perform “swatting”/harassing phone calls, or “spoofing” numbers to facilitate fraud. Deep web based virtual SIM services will be explored in real time, and a demonstrative session will be performed as a virtual number is rented to defeat OTP registration.
Talk
What Are SIM Farms?
March 20, 10:30 (GARDEN)
Speaker
Keven Hendricks
Keven Hendricks began his law enforcement career in 2007, and has previously served as a task force officer for FBI and DEA cyber crime task forces during his tenure. He is a contributing author with the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, American Police Beat, and The Blue Magazine and is recognized as a Subject Matter Expert in dark web investigations by the Department of Defense – DTIC, contributing to analytic journals and technical reports. His expertise has been quoted in The Washington Post, CNN, New York Times, NPR, The Economist, NY Magazine – Intelligencer, and Wired. He speaks at conferences all over the world and instructs to law enforcement in both the United States and Internationally, and is currently an adjunct instructor for NW3C.
He is a Certified Cyber Crime Examiner (3CE) and Certified Cyber Crime Investigator (3CI) by NW3C, a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator through the Blockchain Intelligence Group, and a Certified Digital Asset Professional through the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Alliance. He is the founder of the Ubivis Project – StopDarkwebDrugs.com and currently sits on the advisory council for the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative.
