{"id":159442,"date":"2023-03-03T15:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/billions-of-android-and-iphone-users-told-to-search-texts-over-bank-blitzkrieg"},"modified":"2023-03-03T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:22:38","slug":"billions-of-android-and-iphone-users-told-to-search-texts-over-bank-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/billions-of-android-and-iphone-users-told-to-search-texts-over-bank-blitzkrieg","title":{"rendered":"Billions of Android and iPhone users told to search texts over \u2018bank blitzkrieg\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billions-of-android-and-iphone-users-told-to-search-texts-over-bank-blitzkrieg2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WHETHER you\u2019re an Android fan or an iPhone lover, you should be wary of a common text message scam.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/topic\/technology\/\">\u201csmishing\u201d<\/a> and has been flagged by the experts at <a aria-label=\"Security Intelligence (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/securityintelligence.com\/articles\/how-avoid-smishing-subscription-service\/?c=Retail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Security Intelligence<\/a> as a growing problem.<\/p>\n<p>Smishing is essentially the same as phishing, the common email scam technique that tries to get you to give away personal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHETHER you\u2019re an Android fan or an iPhone lover, you should be wary of a common text message scam. It\u2019s called \u201csmishing\u201d and has been flagged by the experts at Security Intelligence as a growing problem. Smishing is essentially the same as phishing, the common email scam technique that tries to get you to give [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}