Dec 5, 2024 — An unprecedented cyber attack, nicknamed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, has potentially exposed private communications to foreign hackers, ...

CISA and the FBI announced that a cyber espionage campaign from the People's Republic of China is targeting commercial telecommunications infrastructure.

There has been a lot of posts recently about how text messages between android and apple phones are not encrypted. I have the odd family ...

Feb 28, 2025 — Messages between iPhones and Androids are not secure and could be intercepted by hackers, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Dec 2, 2021 — SMSs are often used for two factor authentication (2FA) and these types of incidents are what has led cyber security specialists to recommend ...Read more

SMS attacks are malicious threats that use short message service (SMS) and other mobile-based messaging applications to engage in cyberattacks.

Dec 6, 2024 — Learn how to protect your calls and texts following the Chinese telecom cyberattack with simple tips like using encrypted apps.

A repository bluntly named and promising tools for SMS bombing and call flooding.

Aug 7, 2013 — Spammers have a tendency to attempt to exploit any medium in order to drive traffic to their sites. Everyone who has an e-mail account is ...

Dec 10, 2024 — The new Apple iOS 18 feature allows texting features between iPhone users and Androids, but US officials are urging caution, citing cybersecurity concerns.

Aug 16, 2021 — Attackers can quickly come up with ways to circumvent it. They can bypass 2FA through the one-time codes sent as an SMS to a user's smartphone.

Jan 14, 2025 — This makes them vulnerable to interception by hackers. Explanation: SMS/MMS messages, which are used for texting between Apple and Android ...

Aug 7, 2019 — It turns out that's not necessarily so—not even on the iPhone, where simply receiving an iMessage could be enough to get yourself hacked ...

by RA Grimes · 2021 · Cited by 1 — The small form factor and inability to easily distinguish between real and fraudulent Short Message Service (SMS) messages has led to an enti

Don't send texts from your iPhone to an Android one or vice versa, the FBI has warned. This comes amid the Chinese Salt Typhoon hack ...

Dec 1, 2025 — Albiriox is a new family of Android banking malware that gives attackers live remote control over infected phones, letting them quietly ...

by RA Grimes · 2021 · Cited by 1 — The small form factor and inability to easily distinguish between real and fraudulent Short Message Service (SMS) messages has led to an enti

Jun 26, 2025 — The SMS Blaster Smartphone Hacking Threat. Earlier this year, I wrote about a large-scale SMS attack campaign targeting both Android and iPhone ...

If you have a cell phone, you probably use it dozens of times a day to text people you know. But have you ever gotten a text message from an unknown sender?