How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

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

Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

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

GSMA Pushes Mobile Industry to Make RCS Messages End-to-End Encrypted

After Apple finally added support for RCS messages on iOS 18 yesterday, the GSMA is pushing its members to advance the messaging standard with interoperable end-to-end encryption.
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RCS Support on the iPhone is Coming in Fall 2024, Says Google

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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Why Apple would gain from RCS adoption and how WhatsApp currently benefits

Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick, CEO of Dotgo, believes Rich Communication Services is the next generation of messaging, and more advanced than SMS or MMS.
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Google may soon add end-to-end encryption for RCS

The dogfood version of the recently updated app shows multiple references to encryption for RCS, the feature-rich successor to SMS messaging. Continue reading Google may soon add end-to-end encryption for RCS