smishing
phishing Impersonating a trusted party to steal data, often with look-alike domains. Full definition of phishing by text message. The message, often about a parcel, a road toll or a bank alert, carries a link to a fake site on a domain registered for the scam. Campaigns use up many cheap domains quickly, which is why smishing shows up in reports about abuse at registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar and registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry.
- category
- Security and abuse