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Smishers Stand Up Fake Phone Tower to Blast Malicious Texts

ID: bf120a28-bb5e-5da4-8881-94811f010051

STIX ID: report--bf120a28-bb5e-5da4-8881-94811f010051

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2024-06-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Dark Reading Staff

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London police arrested two people accused of operating a homemade cellphone tower to bypass mobile-network safeguards and blast thousands of smishing SMS messages posing as banks and other organizations in an attempt to harvest victims' data; authorities described the setup as a novel approach to text-message phishing.

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