What crypto means by it
An attacker persuades your mobile operator to move your number onto their SIM, then receives every code sent to you. It is the reason SMS is the weakest form of two-factor authentication.
What you already know this as
Identical, and banks have been losing this fight for years. The fix is the same on both sides: an authenticator app or a hardware key, never text messages.
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