Category: smishing
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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets
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…
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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS
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…