60% of U.S. adults say they’ve received spam SMS messages within the last year. People open SMS messages at rates exceeding 90%, according to Cloudmark’s 2012 Messaging Threat Report. Spam spammers grew more sophisticated, and more prolific, in their campaigns during 2012. 2013 may be a pivotal year for malware developments in the smartphone arena, the report said. “I don’t believe it will get as bad as email spam at its worst,” researcher Andrew Conway said.”]
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