A new self-propagating malware is on the loose and it's using WhatsApp. Acronis blows the whistle with all the details.

TALISAY, Philippines — Typhoons apparently cause all sorts of critters to emerge and mingle with humans. The massive storm earlier this month prompted a python to slither through floodwaters in the ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers received scam texts after their state's official text messaging system was breached by hackers, according to a report from NBC News. New York’s Office ...

New York issued a warning on Tuesday after a spam message was sent through its official text message updates. Scott Reif, a spokesperson for the NYS Office of Information Technology Services, ...

Popular Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp may soon introduce new message limits that could cut down on spam. According to TechCrunch, WhatsApp is testing a feature that restricts the number of ...

WhatsApp is testing a new anti-spam measure by placing a monthly limit on messages sent to unknown contacts that do not receive a reply. This policy forces businesses and individual users to earn ...

Chinese criminal gangs have reportedly made over $1 billion through the use of scam text messages and phone calls. The Wall Street Journal reported that spam messages sent by criminal organizations ...

After previewing last year and sharing more details in May, Key Verifier is “now available to all Android 10+ users” to protect against impersonators and fraudsters. This system uses QR codes to ...

iOS 26 includes an anti-spam feature that can protect you from getting bombarded with text message spam on your iPhone. You just have to activate it. It’s easy. Here’s what to do to save yourself from ...

In iOS 26, Apple has introduced enhanced message filtering that gives you more control over unwanted texts, separating spam messages from unknown senders into distinct categories. Here's how to set up ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

More than 205 million spam short message service (SMS) messages were detected by Airtel Africa’s pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered spam detection service, Spam Alert in 13 of its markets ...