Collaborate Disseminate
I received an SMS from an unknown number with a link. Having just ordered stuff from AliExpress bit earlier so, thinking it was related to that, I clicked without doing due diligence. My bad.
I went home and tried using a command line tool… Continue reading I clicked on a SMS spam link. Am I safe? [duplicate]
My webapp has an SMS 2FA option. When someone enrolls, it sends an SMS to the number specified by the user with hard coded text that contains a token that the user needs to then enter in the web app to confirm the enrollment. Pretty standa… Continue reading How spammers are abusing 2fa SMS in web apps?
My girlfriend texted me but I didn’t receive it from this number +310260672089396 I want to know what’s that about
Continue reading Need help figuring out this number [closed]
If you’re looking for a good excuse to finally buy a drone, you probably can’t do better than claiming it can save your life. Granted, you may never find yourself …read more Continue reading Stranded Motorist Effects Own Rescue Using a Drone and a Cell Phone
Willie Sutton, the criminal who became legendary for stealing from banks during a forty year career, was once asked, “Why do you keep robbing banks?”
His answer? “Because that’s where the money is.”
However, today there’s a better target for robb… Continue reading Trezor crypto wallets under attack in SMS phishing campaign
Many Twitter users have been presented with a message telling them that SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) will be removed next month.
According to Twitter, only subscribers to its premium Twitter Blue service will be able to use text message… Continue reading As Twitter forces users to remove text message 2FA, it’s in danger of decreasing security
Perhaps the biggest punishment of all will be Dennis Su’s name being forever associated with an extraordinarily inept and cack-handed attempt to frighten people out of money. Continue reading Bungling Optus scammer was no criminal mastermind
A surgery center in the U.K. accidentally texted its patients two days before Christmas letting them know they had aggressive lung cancer. Continue reading Surgeons Sorry for Texting Patients They Had ‘Aggressive’ Cancer Instead of ‘Happy New Year’
UK police are texting 70,000 people who they believe have fallen victim to a worldwide scam that saw fraudsters steal at least £50 million from bank accounts.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Operation Elaborate – UK police text 70,000 people thought to have fallen victim to iSpoof bank fraudsters
Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system:
Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism. But users have been self-reporting issues on Twitter since the weekend, and WIRED confirmed that on at least some accounts, authentication texts are hours delayed or not coming at all. The meltdown comes less than two weeks after Twitter laid off about half of its workers…
Continue reading Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System