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Openmind’s View on Smishing & SMS Fraud

We believe strongly that criminal activity on messaging networks should not be tolerated – subscribers should feel 100% safe in using mobile messaging services

The continued prevalence of Smishing & other types of SMS Fraud is a huge risk to the future of SMS services – the industry needs to take immediate steps to stop this fraud and protect SMS for essential use cases. It is possible to protect both network and subscribers without compromising privacy – we work with our customers and regulators to implement solutions that stop fraud without impacting subscriber privacy

Our Smishing Prevention Strategy

Openmind’s Smishing Prevention Service

Openmind’s Smishing Prevention Service supports the detection and blocking of Smishing messages on Mobile Networks

Service is based on analysis of URLs circulating on the network to identify and block the fraudulent ones. Solution is a combination of service & technology provided by Openmind

Openmind’s SMS Security Services Solution Components

All our SMS Security Services are built on our Next Generation Firewall platform with additional artificial intelligence/machine learning based tools combined with expert consultancy offered by our Managed Services Team

Smishing Prevention Service Implementation

All our SMS Security Services are built on our Next Generation Firewall platform with additional artificial intelligence/machine learning based tools combined with expert consultancy offered by our Managed Services Team

Additional technical components installed at each Mobile Operator’s Network with access provided to Openmind’s Global Operations team. Setting up Open Protect in 3 simple steps:

We will assess your existing systems

to understand the product and service configuration you need

We will design your Traffic Control 6000 configuration

and work with you to get it to approval stage

We will guide and support your implementation

so you have total peace of mind and can focus on generating revenue from your messaging system

Subscriber Data Protection

  • Given & Family names replaced with ‘NAME’
  • Email addresses replaced with ’EMAIL’
  • All numeric characters replace with the digit ‘5’
  • Message Metadata (Originating & Destination
    Addresses) obfuscated

URL Analysis Workflow

How Messages are Screened by Openmind to Stop Smishing

URL Screening

Custom Analysis

When specific attacks such as FluBot emerge, custom screening functions are created by our team based on detailed analysis of the threat. Allows for precisely targeted automated blocking of incoming messages.

URL Redirection

The Primary URL contained in SMS text redirects to a Terminal URL hosting the malware. Objective is to identify the Terminal URL and block all messages containing URLs that redirect to that

"Our worldwide base of 40+ installed SMS Firewalls gives us unique visibility on the threats and opportunities facing Operators."

The Openmind Advantage

We are 100% focused on enabling and protecting mobile messaging services at Operators around the world.

We continuously lead the way in bringing new innovations to market that make messaging safer for subscribers and more profitable for Operators Our worldwide base of 40+ installed SMS Firewalls gives us unique visibility on the threats and opportunities facing Operators

Our agile development and CI/CD delivery processes means our customers always have access to the latest functionality:

  • Speed of reaction is key to stopping the damage caused by Fraud.
  • Rapid time to market for initial service, updates and improvements
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We will assess your existing systems

to understand the product and service configuration you need

We will design your Traffic Control 6000 configuration

and work with you to get it to approval stage

We will guide and support your implementation

so you have total peace of mind and can focus on generating revenue from your messaging system