Mobile number recycling and SMS store-and-forward mechanisms can result in a nasty shock for South African cellular customers, as a MyBroadband reader recently experienced.
The subscriber informed us of their experience where they signed up for MTN’s Shesh@600 product and started receiving SMS messages stating they’d signed up for various daily subscriptions.
They initially suspected something reminiscent of the Telkom vulnerability in 2023 that enabled wireless application service providers (WASPs) to subscribe…
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