PETALING JAYA: The spam call attacks that inundated political candidates from all camps, preventing them from making calls, are easily orchestrated says security specialist company LGMS. “It’s similar to spam e-mail messages but instead of sending hundreds of spam e-mails, the attack vector is calls,” said LGMS CEO Fong Choong Fook (pic). “Spam calls are typically made by using Voice over IP (VoIP) gateways. Currently, it is not difficult to subscribe to a VOIP gateway to broadcast calls,” he said, adding that this process could easily be automated using Bots. However, the spam calls cannot steal info such as contact details or charge the call to the user, said Fong.

Source: The Star May 09, 2018 13:30 UTC