The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has again exposed the transmission of SMS messages from a fake base transceiver station (BTS) in an operation around Bukit Chagar, Johor ...

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 ...

A large Chinese SMS phishing operation that posed as big and recognizable US brand names, including Google, is being sued by Alphabet under an assortment of US laws. The “Smishing Triad” is a highly ...

During the Orange OpenTech event in Paris, Orange announced the launch of ‘Message Satellite’, a service that allows its customers based in mainland France to send and receive SMS messages as well as ...

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 ...

Abstract: Short Messaging Service, or SMS, is a communications service still in use today. Despite more advanced text-based communication technologies like chatting apps (e.g., WhatsApp, Line, ...

Unknown threat actors are abusing Milesight industrial cellular routers to send SMS messages as part of a smishing campaign targeting users in European countries since at least February 2022. French ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll send the National Guard to address crime concerns in Memphis, Tennessee, his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using ...

The first SMS was sent in 1992, when an engineer of an IT service company based in the U.K. sent it to his colleague to wish him a Merry Christmas. One year later, Finnish company Nokia released the ...

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 ...

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