Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message. Scam texts have been a nuisance for a long time, but they've become increasingly ...

If you’re on a computer and you get a text on your phone, wouldn’t it be great if you could reply without picking it up? Yes, it would, and there are great apps and services that enable just that ...

If you have a mobile phone, you have no doubt seen some dodgy texts. They might declare that you have an overdue road toll, and urge you to "Click here to pay." Or maybe they inform you that there's a ...

Google filed a lawsuit against a cybercriminal group largely based in China that is behind a massive text message phishing operation, or "smishing." The organization uses a phishing-as-a-service kit ...

Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of scam text messages sent to Americans this year, according to a legal complaint filed Tuesday.

Google has declared war on text message scammers, launching a lawsuit and introducing new anti-phishing protections to combat the rising tide of fraud. The tech giant’s legal action targets phishing ...