ABOUT a year ago, a wave of SMS spoofing scam incidents dominated headlines in Singapore. Among the most high-profile cases were customers of a well-known local bank, who collectively lost more than ...

SINGAPORE: From Oct 1, the current police emergency SMS sender ID "71999" will be discontinued and changed to "70999", as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) works to standardise the sender IDs used by ...

A sophisticated tool named Xeon Sender is being exploited by cybercriminals to launch large-scale SMS phishing (smishing) and spam campaigns. By leveraging legitimate cloud services, attackers can ...

Score one for the consumer against the indefatigable force of growth hacking. Ever, the photo storage app that we called out in September for spamming SMS contact lists (it rebranded from Everalbum ...

In recent years, SMS marketing has become an essential channel for many B2B and B2C marketers in Australia. It has a unique set of advantages, such as instant customer communication, personalised ...

A massive SMS spamming operation kicked out tens of millions of text messages, pestering unsuspecting recipients with links to fake sites flogging loans and free money. The operation was simple but ...

Optus has been hit with two fines totalling $110,000 for allegedly sending 20,000 text messages without properly disclosing which company they were from. Optus has been hit with two fines totalling ...

A cloud-based tool named Xeon Sender has enabled attackers to conduct large-scale SMS spam and phishing campaigns by leveraging legitimate software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Distributed through ...

There's a big security story blowing through the leaves today, and it affects your iPhone. Uncovered by iPhone hacker Pod2G, the issue involves SMS spoofing and shows up in every version of iOS for ...

SINGAPORE - Emergency SMSes sent by the police will show the sender ID 70999 starting Oct 1. The discontinuation of its previous sender ID, 71999, is part of efforts by the Ministry of Home Affairs to ...