Text message scam attempts have increased by 50 percent in the past year, with young adults experiencing the sharpest rise of any age group. That’s one of several important findings in the 2025 Cyber ...

Americans lost $470 million to scams that started with a text message in 2024, according to new Federal Trade Commission data published in an April 2025 FTC release. The figure reflects a sharp ...

Republished on August 12 with new text message attack warnings. American smartphones are under attack from malicious text messages. This industrial scale campaign is driven by organized criminal gangs ...

Most scam texts are easy to spot, but this one feels different. At first glance, the message looks polished and uses official branding that signals credibility. It also includes technical details that ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...