Organizations need to face heavy monetary losses and reputational damage due to the continuous increase in cyberattacks every year. To safeguard organizations against these modern smishing attacks it ...

QUINCY – My turn to receive the latest fraudulent "smishing" scam arrived at 9:27 a.m. Sunday when a text message appeared on my iPhone. It told me that I owed money for unpaid tolls on state ...

The scams are known as “smishing,” which is “a mashup of SMS — for ‘short message service’ — and phishing,” according to a scam guide from the FCC. The department posted an ...

Beware: texts are part of the latest “smishing” scam, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The texts say that the recipient owes money for EZ pass tolls and include a ...

Have you received a text lately accusing you of owing unpaid toll bills? Beware: texts are part of the latest “smishing” scam, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

It also includes a link to a website. Instead of being a real notice to pay your bill, the message is a “smishing” scam. Smishing is a phishing attempt by text message aimed at stealing your ...

At worst for the fraudsters, they will find out which numbers are likely to reply to these smishing attempts, likely leading to future attempts. If in doubt, do not comply with a request from an ...

"The scam is the smishing with the text," the spokesperson said, "It's very current and topical." According to the spokesperson, the scammers send a text message telling the recipient that they ...