The FBI has warned Android and iPhone users to delete a specific type of dangerous text message immediately. The security agency noted that attacks related to these texts have surged by over 700% this month. These texts, identified as a threat originating directly from China, are targeting multiple cities and states across the US. The FBI\u2019s confirmation follows alerts issued by various police forces nationwide. Previously, “unpaid toll texts” had been a common issue for American smartphone users for over a year, but this issue has seen a significant decline recently, a report claims. These new “DMV texts” have now replaced them and are considered “more threatening” by attackers, suggesting that they have improved their methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The FBI has warned Android and iPhone users to delete a specific type of dangerous text message immediately. The security agency noted that attacks related to these texts have surged by over 700% this month. These texts, identified as a threat originating directly from China, are targeting multiple cities and states across the US. The FBI\u2019s confirmation follows alerts issued by various police forces nationwide. Previously, “unpaid toll texts” had been a common issue for American smartphone users for over a year, but this issue has seen a significant decline recently, a report claims. These new “DMV texts” have now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}