Data scientist proves IMDA's protection scheme against SMS phishing is still vulnerable to hackers - The Independent Singapore News

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“I wanted to highlight to you that the current IMDA protection registry does not work. I've still been able to use the methods employed by scammers to send phishing SMS messages. Names such as SingPost, Lazada, DBS etc can still be sent,” Captain Singkie wrote in an email to TISG.

“Imagine if you received a POFMA from this sender. Will you believe? Victims might.He then proceeded to show screengrab of spoofed texts purporting to have been sent from MINSHAN, or Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, and JOTEO, or Minister for Communications and InformationScreengrab: captain-sinkie.com

estricting all sender names by default, which means that nobody can change sender names in SMS messaging.Only when companies register for certain names, then IMDA can allow them to change SMS to that specific name. He called it a “herculean effort” but pointed out that there are already 51 countries that require this type of registration process.

 

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