SMS Slight: Hackers attack millions of people with a new method. What to do

Extensive: Internet scales are becoming more resourceful, and modern technologies help them involuntarily. Phishing messages are no longer relevant-now the criminals have learned to use the goals of "SMS-blackers", the attackers use portable cellular towers, writes Wired. This seems very meaningless, but they really go or go with such towers and deceive the users' phones. And "Blastoter" is not even feedback here: one such device is able to send 100,000 text messages in an hour.

There is already evidence that in a short period he has "flooded" people nearly a million SMS. The technology itself is not new, but only now it has become such a terrible scale. The insidiousness of "SMS-blanters" is that they can pretend to be any sender, and scammers do not even need your number. "Blasters", in fact, are a cellular imitator that can force it to connect any phone nearby (at a distance of 400 to almost 2000 meters).

Initially, such a simulator "lures" the mobile phone using a 4G legitimate signal and then switches the user to a less safe 2G connection. All this happens outside the area of ​​real mobile communications networks, so providers cannot stop fraudsters. Therefore, experts remind users of one basic rule that can still help: never go for any suspicious links. Earlier, focus wrote that SMS messages are better not to use.