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Chinese PostalFurious Gang Strikes UAE Users with Sneaky SMS Phishing Scheme

06
Jun
2023

A Chinese-speaking phishing gang dubbed PostalFurious has been linked to a new SMS campaign that’s targeting users in the U.A.E. by masquerading as postal services and toll operators, per Group-IB. The fraudulent scheme entails sending users bogus text messages asking them to pay a vehicle trip fee to avoid additional fines. The messages also contain […]

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Twilio Customer Data Breached via SMS Phishing of Employees

08
Aug
2022

What begins with “the security of our customers’ data is of paramount importance” and ends with a pledge “to help impacted customers in every way possible”? Enter a data breach notification issued Sunday by Twilio. The San Francisco-based customer engagement platform provider counts hundreds of thousands of businesses as customers. Information collected by the company […]

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FCC warns of steep rise in phishing over SMS

05
Aug
2022

After the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) made a huge splash weeks ago when it told Google and Apple to pull TikTok from their respective app stores, the federal agency is now warning Americans of an increased wave of SMS phishing attacks. SMS phishing, otherwise known as smishing or robotexts (FCC’s own terminology), is a form […]

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