SMS spam has evolved far beyond the era of low-effort annoyances, transforming into a massive, industrialized ecosystem. Today, it’s a highly calculated numbers game consisting of fake package notifications, urgent bank alerts, and non-existent security breaches designed to prey on everyday users. While these text alerts may appear random and disconnected on your phone, a look under the hood reveals a highly coordinated, centralized infrastructure. Massive criminal networks are now heavily leveraging generative AI to automate, polish, and deploy these phishing campaigns at an unprecedented scale.Google and the FBI just brought a hammer down on it. In a coordinated push,...