The investigation began in November 2025, when police were alerted to a suspected SMS blaster operating in downtown Toronto. Police later determined that the blaster was operating out of a car, which allowed it to move around the city and Greater Toronto Area.
The administrators behind Military Phony described 'digital stolen valor' as the online equivalent of wearing medals you didn't earn, using exaggerated or fabricated credentials to gain respect, sympathy or opportunity that would otherwise belong to someone else.
SMS is one of the most underused answers to that problem. Texts get opened, they feel personal, and the barrier to respond is lower than almost any other channel. When you ask a question, people answer. And what comes back can become some of your most compelling content.
Morpheus, a new malware identified by Osservatorio Nessuno, masquerades as a phone updating app and is capable of stealing a broad range of data from an intended target's device.
The spammers are spoofing our email address - this means they are falsely setting GSMArena.com as the sender of the email. Specifically, it looks like the email came from tpjdlgcj@gsmarena.com, but that's not an active account on our server (that random jumble of letters is clearly randomly generated). Instead the emails are coming from a server owned by Microsoft (52.103.140.27) and one owned by Oracle (92.5.13.127), neither of which is part of our infrastructure.
Sender reputation suspensions often arise from email practices that negatively impact the recipient experience, such as high bounce rates, subscriber complaints, and invalid addresses. These elements collectively shape your sender reputation data and trigger a suspension when they consistently fall below acceptable thresholds.
In a service alert spotted by BleepingComputer, Microsoft revealed that the glitch started on February 5 and has been preventing some Exchange Online users from sending and receiving emails. "Some users' legitimate email messages are being marked as phish and quarantined in Exchange Online," Microsoft said in the service alert. "We've determined that the URLs associated with these email messages are incorrectly marked as phish and quarantined in Exchange Online due to ever-evolving criteria aimed at identifying suspicious email messages, as spam and phishing techniques have become more sophisticated in avoiding detection."
