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US Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former CEO of Messaging App for Fraud
IRL was once valued at USD1.2bn but founder and CEO Abraham Shafi now faces a potential 20-year prison sentence for lying about paying users to download his app.
Police Find SMS Blaster That Sent a Million Smishing Messages in 3 Days
Also in the news: Indian minister reports success with coordinated blocking of spoofed mobile numbers; Danish Navy detains Chinese ship after Baltic submarine cables were cut; SIM swap syndicate busted in South Africa; and what an AI grandma tells us about confused priorities.
Telenor Linx Explains How They Stopped Payment for a Massive A2P SMS Fraud
The wholesale carrier is so proud of how they tackled a hack by criminals that they made a video describing their response.
Artificial Inflation of Traffic Blamed for Dismal SMS Forecasts
Mobile operators ramp up prices for terminating SMS whilst crooks use bots to generate meaningless traffic.
Denial of Service, Voice Clones, AI Social Media Bots and Anonymous Sudan: Commsrisk Show 8
Anonymous Sudan have hit many with denial of service attacks. Their methods show how diverse societies face common vulnerabilities.
250 Simboxes Seized by Ukraine Raids on Bot Farms
But some of the footage of confiscated equipment appears to have been publicized before.
Ukraine Police Raid Another Simbox Bot Farm Pushing Pro-Putin Propaganda
Three people in the city of Vinnytsia have been arrested and each faces a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
Artificially Inflated Traffic from Bots Makes Spotify Remove Thousands of AI-Generated Songs
Spotify removed about 7% of all songs uploaded from Boomy, a platform that uses automation to create new songs 'in seconds'.
Elon Musk Has Radical Solution for A2P SMS Fraud: Twitter Turns Off 2-Factor Authentication by SMS
Comms providers will fear other businesses may follow Twitter's lead by telling users to adopt different modes of authentication.
Elon Musk Says Twitter Lost $60mn a Year Because 390 Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump A2P SMS
Twitter accounts were created solely to generate revenue for telcos from two-factor authentication SMS messages.
Twitter Blocked Big Telcos in India, Russia and Indonesia in Vain Bid to Reduce Bots
Customers of some of the world's biggest telcos were unable to access their Twitter accounts.
Twitter Whistleblower Claims ‘Extreme, Egregious Deficiencies’ for Security, Privacy and Spam
If the claims are true, Twitter faces the collapse of its bid to force a takeover by Elon Musk plus enormous fines for violating FTC orders.
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