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A total of 37 percent of all Norwegians have been exposed to text messages from fake senders in the past year, according to a NorSIS survey.
In just one day in August, Telenor stopped more than 45,000 fake or fraud-related text messages.
– Very few are aware that it is almost as easy to send a fake SMS as a real one, says cyber expert and senior advisor Vidar Sandland at the Norwegian Center for Information Security (NorSIS).
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According to the National Communications Authority (Nkom), Telenor blocked 45,000 text messages related to fraud in one day in August. One of the scam techniques that causes the message to stop is the fake sender, called SMS spoofing.
– The actors who engage in this type of illegitimate manipulation of the return address are often located outside of Norway, says senior advisor Johannes Vallesverd at Nkom.
In total, around 20 million text messages were sent through the Telenor system on this day.
Fake text messages are primarily used to trick the recipient into providing their username, password, or credit card information.
– You may also be asked to download a program that, in the worst case, gives criminals full access to your camera, microphone, files, and text messages. It’s only the imagination that puts an end to the use of this, says Sandland.
It emphasizes that downloading this type of monitoring app is in most cases a challenge associated with Android phones.
On behalf of the Ministry of Justice, NorSIS is hosting National Security Month this fall. One of the objectives of the campaign is that as many Norwegian companies as possible carry out a training program for their employees.
(© NTB)
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