Attackers can force mobile phones to send premium-rate SMS messages or prevent them from receiving messages for long periods of time by leveraging a logic flaw in mobile telecommunication standards.

With AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon all dropping most premium SMS billing, this could open the door to higher opt-in rates for mobile programs and the loosening of regulation around these programs ...

A heart rate and pulse tracker. A chat translator. A slime simulator. And a fingerprint "defender." Using more than 200 such low-key applications, a cybercriminal group created a platform for ...