T-Mobile Customers Targeted By SMS Phishing Attack

US customers of telecom provider T-Mobile have become the target of a sophisticated SMS phishing attack. The customers received a text message in which she was promised a discount of $ 20 when they opened the attached link.

The link pointed to a phishing page where to set the phone and the user's password is requested, and the last four digits of the social security number and PIN. After the data were completed, they got to see a message that the discount was processed and the official website of T-Mobile was loaded, reports anti-virus company Malwarebytes .

On Reddit allows an employee of T-Mobile know that the criminals behind the attack trying to get online access. Then they change the sim and let those expensive calls to premium numbers. Depending on how fast the scam is noted shin injury to the user in the hundreds or thousands of dollars. According to the employee gets them to deal with this every day.

T-Mobile Temporarily Stopped Due MMS Stage Fright Leak

T-Mobile has temporarily stopped supporting MMS messages because of the Stage Fright leak , so the telco through its own forum disclosed. Stage Fright allows attackers via a single MMS message execute malicious code on Android devices. Although no attacks have been observed in the wild yet, T-Mobile has decided after a risk analysis to the "legacy mode" for MMS to turn.

This means that customers no longer received directly into their messaging app, the MMS media content. Instead, they receive an SMS notification containing a web link and a password to view the contents of the MMS message via a separate web portal. T-Mobile is warning customers that the risk remains that an MMS message is infected with the "Stage Fright virus". Customers with their Android smartphone to view the message in the web portal run thus still a risk of getting infected.

"Basically, this provides no real protection you but we thus avoid the risk of an even greater tragedy with a super-fast distribution and prolonged '' know ping-pong" effect ", let the provider. However, an employee reported that the technical department and the central MMS provider T-Mobile possibly next week come up with better alternatives to the measure. "If that is a fact, then I leave to return to the service in normal mode," said employee ' Mark K . Some customers are not very happy that they are not informed in advance about the measure because the MMS service suddenly stopped working.