There are no advance warnings, no SMS messages and definitely no links to click. If users believe their account has been banned by mistake, they must tap "request a review" within the WhatsApp ...

The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner recently fined Platinum Credit Limited KES 400,000 for sending promotional text messages without consent. Central to the case was Samuel Kamau Waweru, ...

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation uncovered and disrupted a large-scale cyber fraud infrastructure, which it calls a “phishing SMS factory,” that sent lakhs of smishing messages daily across the ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueDialog, the enterprise-grade SMS platform powering mission-critical communications for higher education, sports organizations, financial services, and ...

China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

Scammers have been abusing unsecured cellular routers used in industrial settings to blast SMS-based phishing messages in campaigns that have been ongoing since 2023, researchers said. The routers, ...

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.

Cyber police arrest South Korean man in Bangkok for using false base station device to send spoof SMS scams; probe links case to Chinese-run gang. A 35-year-old South Korean man was arrested in ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

In just a few simple steps, a systems administrator can quickly spin up the required SNS-backed text messaging infrastructure. And with only a few lines of code a developer can quickly create a ...