Iranian cyberspies behind major Christmas SMS spear-phishing campaign
Image: Rodion Kutsaev An Iranian cyber-espionage group known as Charming Kitten (APT35 or Phosphorus) has used the recent winter holiday break to attack targets from all...
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Singapore adds face verification, multi-user SMS to SingPass 2FA
Singapore has added face verification as a two-factor authentication (2FA) option to log into SingPass, an account residents use to access e-government services. They...
Cybercriminals Already Targeting, Selling Leaked GO SMS Pro Data
Cybercriminals have been observed targeting a recently disclosed vulnerability in the GO SMS Pro messaging application to steal user data. The issue, Trustwave revealed...
Incomplete ‘Go SMS Pro’ Patch Left Millions of Users’ Data Still Exposed Online
A week after cybersecurity researchers disclosed a flaw in the popular GO SMS Pro messaging app, it appears the developers of the app are...
GO SMS Pro Exposes Messages of Millions of Users
Popular messaging application GO SMS Pro is exposing the audio, video, and photo messages of its users, Trustwave’s SpiderLabs security researchers discovered. With over...
Unpatched Bug in GO SMS Pro App Exposes Millions of Media Messages
GO SMS Pro, a popular messaging app for Android with over 100 million installs, has been found to have an unpatched security flaw that...
Iranian hacker group developed Android malware to steal 2FA SMS codes
Security firm Check Point said it uncovered an Iranian hacking group that has developed special Android malware capable of intercepting and stealing two-factor authentication...
SMS System Now A Long-Gone Era; Google Brings Out A New Update – E Hacking News
With the rise of encrypted alternatives of SMS messages, WhatsApp, iMessage, and Signal, the SMS system has become a ‘throwback to a long-gone era’. ...
Goodbye smishing? SMS crackdown should stop you getting fake messages
As cyber criminals continue to exploit the coronavirus outbreak for their own gain, the UK’s mobile and banking industries have teamed up with the...
Apple Engineers to Standardize the Format of the SMS Messages Containing OTPs – E Hacking News
A proposal comes from Apple engineers working at WebKit, the core component of the Safari web browser, to institutionalize the format of the SMS...