Cybercriminals Have a Weird New Way to Target You With Scam Texts
Matt Burgess
created: Sept. 18, 2025, 11 a.m. | updated: Sept. 20, 2025, 5:59 p.m.
Cybercriminals have a new way of sending millions of scam text messages to people.
They then push the scam messages, which contain links to fraudulent websites, to the connected phones.
While not a new type of technology, the use of SMS blasters in scamming was originally detected in Southeast Asian countries and has increasingly spread to Europe and South America—just last week, Switzerland’s National Cybersecurity Centre issued a warning about SMS blasters.
The growth of SMS blasters comes at a time when scams are rampant.
Still, millions of scam messages get through, and cybercriminals are quick to try to evade detection systems.
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