Smishing: The new year is here — and so are new scams

Smishing has become an increasingly popular attack method among cybercriminals – and they’re getting better at using it.

Today, it’s not just customers of big financial institutions that are being targeted, and messages with spelling mistakes or in the wrong language that allowed users to notice something was off are getting harder to spot. Nowadays, we’re seeing nearly-perfect language and fake websites used by scammers that are almost impossible to say whether we are looking at a fake message or a real one at first glance...