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Tai authorities announced last week the arrests of two organized fraud work party , one of which was accuse of drive through the streets of Bangkok while shoot C of thousands of malicious SMS textual matter messages to nearby jail cell phones . This “ SMS blasting ” attack rely on using technology that impersonates cellular basis station and is capable of transmit thousands of content to gadget within a close geographic radius .
According tolocal news outlet Khaosod , the cellular understructure post apparatus included an 8,000 - James Watt peregrine tycoon station , a Wi - Fi router , and four mobile phones . The gang reportedly sent close to 1 million malicious SMS schoolbook message over a three - day period in mid - November . The news outlet account that the substance were design to play a joke on recipients into thinking they had won a free endowment . These attacks can be used to trick receiver into tap on a malicious data link aimed at stealing their watchword or download malware .
