SMS scammers use toll fees as a lure

In April 2024, the FBI warned about a new type of smishing scam. Smishing is the term we use for phishing attacks sent via text message. This particular smishing scam tries to trick users into clicking a link by telling them they owe a “small amount” in toll fees. The scammers send a text claimin...

curl: TLS certificate check bypass with mbedTLS

A flaw was found in curl. When curl is built to use mbedTLS as the TLS backend, it does not check the server certificate of TLS connections done to a host specified as an IP address...