Comment on Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware
remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 days agoThere has likely been an evolution of war dialers. It’s probably easier to blast through every possible number once a year, and sell a list of every valid number. Targeting specific area codes is probably faster and would avoid some legal problems.
DiagonalHorse@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Huh. You think read receipts via RCS could make it worse? Obviously Google would probably have to make an exception to allow for this but hey “
Don’t Be Evil”remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I have no idea, unfortunately. Tinkering with phones and ways to exploit messaging is something I haven’t done in a number of years.
My first guess would be yes? If you ever get a blank email with only the subject line of “Hi”, “Hello” or similar, it is simply a test to see if your email address is valid. It’s not a stretch to assume there are also simple ways to verify valid numbers that can also recieve text messages.