{"id":2899,"date":"2021-09-19T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/19\/smishing-the-rising-threat-for-business-owners-that-brings-scams-to-smartphones\/"},"modified":"2021-09-19T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:52:56","slug":"smishing-the-rising-threat-for-business-owners-that-brings-scams-to-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/19\/smishing-the-rising-threat-for-business-owners-that-brings-scams-to-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smishing\u2019: the rising threat for business owners that brings scams to smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers, no longer content with phishing emails, are now sending text messages to entice people to click on fake links <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve heard of ransomware? Now you\u2019ve got to worry about \u201csmishing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Smishing is a relatively new form of cyberattack that\u2019s threatening millions of consumers and small businesses around the world. Smishing is a form of \u201cphishing\u201d using SMS or text messages instead of email messages to entice recipients to click on phoney links that draws them to sites where either personal information is exchanged or malware is unknowingly downloaded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/sep\/19\/smishing-the-rising-threat-for-business-owners-that-brings-scams-to-smartphones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/99c0575ccfc4f93e8c1892ba116d12b1cc980494\/0_41_5120_3074\/master\/5120.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ad490a1bcd583047ffd6e2d390cf8224\" title=\"\u2018Smishing\u2019: the rising threat for business owners that brings scams to smartphones\" \/>Hackers, no longer content with phishing emails, are now sending text messages to entice people to click on fake links <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve heard of ransomware? Now you\u2019ve got to worry about \u201csmishing\u201d.<br \/>\nSmishing is a relatively new form of cyberattack that\u2019s threatening millions of consumers and small businesses around the world. Smishing is a form of \u201cphishing\u201d using SMS or text messages instead of email messages to entice recipients to click on phoney links that draws them to sites where either personal information is exchanged or malware is unknowingly downloaded. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers, no longer content with phishing emails, are now sending text messages to entice people to click on fake links You\u2019ve heard of ransomware? Now you\u2019ve got to worry about \u201csmishing\u201d. Smishing is a relatively new form of cyberattack that\u2019s threatening millions of consumers and small businesses around the world. Smishing is a form of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/19\/smishing-the-rising-threat-for-business-owners-that-brings-scams-to-smartphones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Smishing\u2019: the rising threat for business owners that brings scams to smartphones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}