In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor ...

The KPC IPO is facing low subscription and valuation concerns yet Kenyans are receiving coordinated SMS promotions from banks and Safaricom. Is this investor education or a red flag?

SMS spam detection and filtering is a crucial area of research addressing both the nuisance and potential harm posed by unsolicited messages on mobile networks. As SMS remains a fundamental channel ...

A sophisticated tool named Xeon Sender is being exploited by cybercriminals to launch large-scale SMS phishing (smishing) and spam campaigns. By leveraging legitimate cloud services, attackers can ...

The GSMA will recommend that operators join a program that allows mobile subscribers to report SMS spam using short codes in an effort to gather more data on a growing annoyance. The GSMA along with ...

More than 205 million spam short message service (SMS) messages were detected by Airtel Africa’s pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered spam detection service, Spam Alert in 13 of its markets ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.