Tag: smishing

Smishing, baby. Communications tool giant Twilio, which provides text and phone services to over 250,000 corporate customers ranging from Facebook to the American Red Cross, suffered a serious breach of its systems after unknown parties bombarded its employees with sham password reset requests via text. According to Twilio’s incident report, the firm was compromised by what’s known as a “smishing” (SMS phishing) attack on current and former employees—a method that is increasingly being used to target large businesses, as employer oversight of mobile devices is often lax. In Twilio’s case, the...