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The latest smishing scam follows a familiar process as ones the industry has seen over the past decade.
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Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores. Continue reading How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets→
Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid. Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular commercial phishing kit sold in China that makes it simple to set up convincing lures spoofing toll road operators in multiple U.S. states. Continue reading Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS→
There’s a wee data breach with unhealthy implications in Scotland, privacy has gone off the rails in the UK, and a cheater blames Apple for his expensive divorce.
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Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Akismet, announced today that it has acquired Beeper, makers of the universal messaging app of the same name.
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If Apple already confirmed that the iPhone will add RCS support this year, Google claimed that this is set to happen in fall 2024.
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Some of the known targets of this iMessage phishing campaign are USPS (the United States Postal Service), DHL, Evri, Australia Post, Bulgarian Posts, and Singapore Post.
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The tech giant hopes to make its messaging platform secure against highly capable quantum computers of the future.
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New iMessage Contact Key Verification feature in Apple’s iOS and macOS platforms help catch impersonators on its iMessage service.
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The European Commission is reportedly considering Apple’s iMessage to be not popular enough among business users to deserve regulation.
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