A current security issue with high explosiveness are currently circulating SMS messages with alleged parcel notifications including links to - alleged - shipment tracking.
What applies to emailsThis applies even more to SMS and messenger messages or missed calls from dubious numbers (ping calls): Exercise extreme caution when calling links contained in the messages, do not reply, do not call back.
Im Fall der jetzt laufenden Welle von SMS-Fishing (Jüngst gern auch kurz “Smishing” genannt) gibt es sowohl Hinweise darauf, dass ein Aufruf des enthaltenen Links in einzelnen Fällen dazu geführt hat, dass vom betroffenen Telefon eine Vielzahl weitere SMS an fremde Nummern versandt wurden, was nicht zuletzt Kosten verursachen kann (reported, for example, by the LKA Lower Saxony).
Other variants of the links lead to classic fishing sites in the fake design of, for example, renowned parcel services, on which personal data is then to be entered with the purpose of collecting precisely this data or also the conclusion of expensive subscriptions in the sense of a subscription trap.
The IT security company ESET also reportsthat some of the links in such messages lead to well-prepared fake pages that ask to install an alleged tracking app, behind which the Android banking Trojan FluBot hides.
So: No calling links in SMS messages
