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USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

ID: a66030c4-a244-5ba8-965c-d611b6b9ea2b

STIX ID: report--a66030c4-a244-5ba8-965c-d611b6b9ea2b

Feed Name: WIRED Security

Threat Score
72/100

Date Published: 2024-08-08

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Matt Burgess

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A security researcher infiltrated a Chinese-language smishing operation (the "Smishing Triad") that sent USPS-themed SMS links to victims, revealing that 438,669 unique credit cards and over 1.2 million data items were entered across 1,133 fraudulent domains; the group sells smishing kits via Telegram and used web vulnerabilities (path traversal, SQL injection) in their infrastructure to collect victims' payment and contact information.

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