According to Microsoft 365 Defender research team, whereas SMS fraud or call fraud use a simple attack flow to send messages or calls to a premium number, toll fraud has a complex multi-step attack flow that malware developers continue to improve.
OTP delays should end as TRAI suspends its blockchain experiment for seven days
Prabhjote GillMar 9, 2021, 17:02 IST
Users in India are not receiving one-time-passwords as telecom operators implement new blockchain techology to block out spam messagesUnsplash
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suspended its blockchain technology aimed at filtering out
spam messages for the next seven days.
This comes after users across the country saw long delays in receiving their one-time-passwords (OTPs) for online transactions.
Since the upgrade was implemented yesterday, users report not receiving OTPs from legitimate sources like their banks, digital payments apps and even government entities like Aadhaar authentication.One-time-passwords (OTPs) aren’t just for financial transactions. They are central for logging into email accounts, authenticating new memberships, or just signing into Amazon on a new device.