Smishing is much like email phishing scams, but instead sends deceptive or malicious links through text messages. In 2020, after lockdowns were in place around the world, smishing attacks proliferated exponentially. Smishing attacks increased by an alarming 29 percent between March and July 2020, says Ivanti’s Phil Richards. Richards: Mobile security should be the top of every CISO s Mobile Security To-do-do list in the year ahead. He says the new era of mass teleworking has pretty much demolished what was left of the traditional network perimeter.
Source: https://threatpost.com/smishing-text-phishing-ciso-radar/165634/