Use SMS messaging in text message marketing campaigns to reach customers on their mobile devices. Learn the types of SMS ...

Sending marketing SMS without consent is illegal in Kenya, with businesses now facing fines and penalties under the Data ...

Google is filing a federal lawsuit against a network of foreign cybercriminals based in China that is accused of launching massive text-message phishing attacks, the tech giant told CBS News in an ...

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 ...

Article and title updated to remove the term "worm". See update below. An auto-spamming payload published on npm spams the registry by spawning new packages every seven seconds, creating large volumes ...

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 ...

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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 ...

There are few more frustrating iPhone experiences than receiving a spam call. Whether it’s interrupting your work or play, it doesn’t take much for a junk call to take you out of the moment. The ...

Google’s August 2025 spam update rollout is now complete. The spam update started Aug. 26, just under 27 days ago, finishing on Sept. 22. This was the first spam update of 2025, while there were three ...

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 ...

Google classifies “spam updates” as notable improvements to its automated spam-prevention systems, including SpamBrain. These releases aim to better detect and reduce spam in search results rather ...