What Multilingual Spam Tells Us about Fraud
The fundamental economics of crime remain the same, whether the vehicle is an international email or an international voice call.
Huge CenturyLink Outage Shows Risk Lies in the Details
A bad firewall configuration rule forced Tier 1 operator CenturyLink offline and reduced global internet traffic by 3.5%.
Ghana’s Government Promises to Scrap Minimum Termination Rate
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia said the current GHC0.19 per minute rate is a ‘nuisance tax’ that causes simbox fraud.
Brazil Becomes Key Battleground in US-China 5G War
A recent war of words in the Brazilian press highlights the global scale of the US government’s fight against Huawei.
Account Takeover Specialists SpyCloud Close $30mn Investment Round
SpyCloud identifies vulnerable online accounts by checking them against their library of compromised credentials.
Huawei, ZTE, Ericsson and Nokia Pass GSMA Security Audit
The Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS) is meant to provide a “security assurance framework” for vendors.
Telco Staff Targeted by New Custom Spear Voice Phishing Attacks
Criminals phone staff as they work at home, then tell them to log on to phishing websites that look like corporate portals.
A Simbox Fraudster’s Tale
A fictional account of the last day of a fraudster’s career, as written by somebody who catches them.
US Claims Progress with Tightening Diameter Security
Lisa Fowlkes of the FCC’s Public Safety Homeland Security Bureau says US wireless telcos are proactively improving the security of Diameter signaling.
Telcos Increase Focus on A2P Messaging Fraud
The Mobile Ecosystem Forum is updating their A2P SMS Code of Conduct, and one of their board members will lead a new i3forum working group on messaging fraud.