FBI, police and DMV warnings say that these messages to your iPhone or Android phone are an attack—you must delete.
Republished on May 29 with a new report into increasing mobile attacks, and further agency and even a new Google warning into this surging threat.
While Trump and Xi continue their game of tariff chicken, China’s organized crime groups such as Smishing Triad and Panda Shop have quietly industrialized text message attacks, which have now reached almost every city and state in the U.S. That’s an understatement. If you get an unpaid toll text, you should assume it’s an attack. Every time. If you have concerns you may owe a toll, contact the operator using its usual, publicly available channels. Then do as the FBI says and delete the text.
Resecurity warns just one threat actor can send "up to 2,000,000 smishing messages daily,” which means targeting “up to 60,000,000 victims per month, or 720,000,000 per year, enough to target every person in the U.S. at least twice every year.”The hope now is that these warnings are being amplified loudly enough for all U.S. citizens to be alert to unpaid toll texts.
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