December 17, 2021 • 2 mins
The Government and telcos are joining forces to battle the latest text scam.
The Flubot scam started in September, and continues to send out about 400,000 messages daily.
People receive a text about a missed call or parcel delivery with a legitimate looking link that actually sends you to malware.
Nadia Yousef is the incident response manager with CERT NZ, the Government’s cyber security watchdog.
She told Mike Yardley the scam isn't slowing down.
“We’ve put over 1000 takedown requests to try get the websites in the background blocked, the scale of this thing has been absolutely huge.”
LISTEN ABOVE
The Flubot scam started in September, and continues to send out about 400,000 messages daily.
People receive a text about a missed call or parcel delivery with a legitimate looking link that actually sends you to malware.
Nadia Yousef is the incident response manager with CERT NZ, the Government’s cyber security watchdog.
She told Mike Yardley the scam isn't slowing down.
“We’ve put over 1000 takedown requests to try get the websites in the background blocked, the scale of this thing has been absolutely huge.”
LISTEN ABOVE
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