SMiShing - SMS Phishing
Last week Fox News ran an interesting story on what would appear to be a growing problem - phishing over SMS, or SMiShing. Scammers are sending large volumes of SMS messages and telling users to perform similar actions as seen in the traditional phishing scams.
So far, malicious SMS’s have been seen to:
- have a URL embedded within the message instructing the user to invoke that link with the phone web browser
- instruct the user to divulge sensitive information
- tell the user to download and install software to their phone that will compromise information on that device
Again, as in the traditional forms of phishing, this technique relies heavily on fraudsters masquerading as legitimate entities or using some form of deception.
Fox News story available on Google Video from here
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