SMS blasters are portable devices which impersonate a mobile phone network tower and are used by cybercriminals.

Health-ISAC is tracking an emerging fraud pattern where threat actors exploit SMS and voice One-Time Password (OTP) mechanisms used in account sign-up, patient portal enrollment, telehealth ...

The key communications regulator found the Commonwealth Bank had been bombarding customers with messages with no way of unsubscribing. But the bank wrote to the watchdog to have the announcement about ...

FBI seized a fraud-linked website used to steal bank logins, targeting victims nationwide, including companies in North Georgia. Fake Google and Bing ads redirected victims to spoofed bank sites, ...

Arvest Bank is warning the public about a rise in scams involving unsolicited video calls. The recent trend involves scammers impersonating financial institutions, including Arvest. Scammers reach out ...

[SINGAPORE] OCBC digital users are now able to access mobile and online banking services, following a short-lived outage on Thursday (Dec 18) morning. About 1,000 outage reports were lodged on ...

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Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message. Scam texts have been a nuisance for a long time, but they've become increasingly ...

Kong Ji Chen, 31 was sentenced to 24 weeks imprisonment after using an SMS blaster to spam commuters with fraudulent text messages during rush hour. The court heard a member of the public received a ...

More than 205 million spam short message service (SMS) messages were detected by Airtel Africa’s pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered spam detection service, Spam Alert in 13 of its markets ...

Scammers are now using “SMS blasters” to send out up to 100,000 texts per hour to phones that are tricked into thinking the devices are cell towers. Your wireless carrier is powerless to stop them.

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has issued a directive requiring all licensed financial institutions to phase out SMS and email-based one-time passwords (OTPs) by ...