Identify iPhone farms to send 100,000 fraudulent messages a day – The Observatorial

Identify iPhone farms to send 100,000 fraudulent messages a day – The Observatorial

Los Cybercinkers They use phone farms iPhone To launch massive ‘Smishing’ campaigns through Imessage, taking advantage of the protections of this messaging application to avoid filters of telephone operators. Scams through text messages (known as ‘Smishing’) reinvent each time, mainly to improve and refine the messages with which they try to deceive their victims (supposed […]

Encrypted iMessages Becoming New Front for Phishing Attacks, Thanks to iPhone Farms

A new study by security researchers is speaking about how iPhone farms are sending nearly 100,000 scam iMessages every single day. These farms are banks of devices filled with rotating temporary Apple IDs. Instead of texting, they use iMessages so scammers can bypass any kind of spam filters that might be in place on the user’s device. Moreover, these scammers don’t need any special skills to carry out such attacks in the first place. You can th…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that smartphone networks, i.e. iPhone farms, are used to send over 100,000 fraudulent messages per day via iMessage. These devices, equipped with temporary Apple accounts, allow scammers to bypass the operators' anti-spam filters. Unlike traditional SMS messages, iMessages are encrypted, [...] Read more... Follow iPhoneAddict.fr on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAdd…