Tag: sms

January 12, 2024

Food delivery company HelloFresh is nursing a £140,000 ($178k) fine by Britain’s data privacy watchdog after a probe found it had dispatched upwards of a staggering 79 million spam email and one million texts in just seven months. The meal-kit […]

June 1, 2022

Also referred to as Fedex Banker and Cabassous, the spyware has been around since late 2020, mainly focused on users in Europe, but with attacks also registered in the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and elsewhere. The threat spreads […]

September 3, 2021

It’s a good idea to try and keep certain things private. For example, people have been using anonymous email services for years. These either hide your real email address, or replace it entirely for specific tasks. Folks will go one […]

January 28, 2021

The threat of scam text messages may now seem distant, even quaint. With all the new, exotic and sophisticated attacks that have arisen in the past decade, surely text message attacks are low on the list. But, they can still […]

February 24, 2020

Researchers have discovered a new SMS phishing campaign targeting mobile numbers in the United States aiming to steal online banking credentials and install the Emotet malware wherever possible. SMS phishing campaigns, also known as smishing, follows a straightforward recipe. Victims […]

December 2, 2019

Tens of millions of SMS messages have been found on an unprotected database, putting the private data of hundreds of millions of people in the United States at risk for theft or exposure and leaving a communications company open for […]

March 19, 2019

G Suite administrators can now prevent enterprise users from using SMS and voice codes as their second authentication/verification factor for accessing their accounts. The ability to disable those two options will be made available in the next two weeks to […]

August 2, 2018

Reddit, one of the largest websites on the internet, announced on Wednesday that someone was able to compromise staff accounts at their cloud and source code hosting providers, leaving backups, source code, and various logs exposed. As a result, they […]

September 15, 2017

Google has ejected 50 apps from its Google Play store that were harboring mobile malware dubbed ExpensiveWall. The malware, which was downloaded between 1 million to 4.2 million times, sends fraudulent premium SMS messages for fake fee-based services without the […]

July 26, 2017

Smartphones have become a crucial part of our everyday lives; we shop, bank and network using our phones. But with so much valuable personal data being stored on these devices, they have become a top target for cyber criminals. If […]

December 8, 2016

Two-factor authentication (2FA), also known as multi-factor authentication, might not be enough, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has repeatedly warned us this year. Meant to provide an extra layer of security by sending a code to […]

November 7, 2016

Looking at the multitude of different types of SMS users out there, there is a very high probability that there is someone who wants to read or gain access to another user’s SMS messages. What kind of SMS client is […]

June 27, 2016

Since two-factor authentication became the norm for web services that care about securing your accounts, it’s started to feel like a security blanket, an extra layer keeping your data safe no matter whether your password is as strong as 8$&]$@I)9[P&4^s […]

September 25, 2015

With the Smartphone revolution and the wide choice of free messaging services available, receiving an #sms is definitely an unusual occurrence. Instead of being a way for friends and family to communicate, it has now become the preferred way for […]

September 6, 2015

Uber has tweaked one of the features in its app after it was shown to let sensitive trip data become publicly accessible through Google. The feature lets Uber customers share their ETA, via SMS, with friends and family during a […]