BOSTON (WHDH) - The message looked legitimate and urgent, but following its instructions set off a chain of costly clicks for Karen Caplan. The text claimed there was a problem with a credit card ...

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 ...

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 ...

The text message claims recipients have unpaid fines from traffic violations and urges them to quickly make payment, which are two common signs of a scam. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and ...