The growth of text-based phishing scams hit close to home for Axios when several employees got fake text messages claiming to be from company president and co-founder Roy Schwartz.
Screenshots of scam texts sent to Axios employees. Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios
The messages targeted employees across the country and across departments, and each one was addressed to the specific individual. At least one employee said they received the message twice in the week: One from Roy and another pretending to be CEO and co-founder Jim VandeHei.I showed the messages to Chester Wisniewski, a researcher at cybersecurity firm Sophos, and he immediately recognized them.
This scam has been running for years, but Wisniewski says this is the first example he's seen where the scammers targeted several employees at the same company at once.
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