Comms Risk
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Commsrisk is the information exchange for electronic communication risk, a hub for news and opinions relating to risk management, assurance, privacy, and security in the communications sector. It is the one-stop shop for risk managers, auditors, assurance practitioners, security experts, lawyers, software developers, and anyone who needs to be regularly updated about the full range of issues in the communications risk universe.
Since 2006, founder Eric Priezkalns has provided unrivaled coverage of telecoms business assurance on his talkRA website. Commsrisk is an upgrade and relaunch of that site, extending the scope to reflect the changing priorities of comms providers and the evolving threats they and their customers face.
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Search ArticlesDon’t Look Up: Banks Are Feasting on Telcos
We are witnessing a massive reorganization of the telco industry along global lines. Telcos are being broken up into infrastructure (infraco), network (netco), and customer‑facing services (servco) units, with most of the juiciest bits spun off to REITs and hedge funds posing as infracos. The global internet and hyperscale cloud fabrics are certainly drivers behind the horizontal globalization of connectivity, but the real story is where the cash flows end up.
Which Countries Have the Busiest SMS Firewalls?
Commsrisk has added a . The map collates public information about the extent to which fraudulent, spam and other potentially harmful SMS messages are being blocked before they reach consumers. The map uses data published by national authorities where available. Where no national total has been found, figures published by major telcos are used instead. These figures are converted into a common score: the number of SMS messages blocked per day per million inhabitants.
How to Detect SMS Blasters
SMS blasters are affecting a growing number of countries. Fraudsters drive around with cars, motorbikes, or even suitcases on the metro, and in those they have false base stations which blast SMS to phones in their vicinity. The fraudulent SMS try to phish information, contain malicious links and often impersonate well-known entities like banks or government agencies. Those SMS blasters are not part of the local mobile operator network.
The Future of Commsrisk
I am James Greenley, chief software engineer of the Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard. I created the software that automatically collates publicly available data from multiple sources so regulators and communications professionals can obtain an unbiased and up-to-date perspective on trends relating to fraud, spam and other network abuses. Eric has published his final article on Commsrisk, but my work on the Global Fraud Dashboard continues.
The Final Commsrisk Article: US Telcos Cannot Be Allowed to Dictate Global KYC
Cease to resist, giving my goodbye Drive my car into the ocean You’ll think I’m dead, but I sail away On a wave of mutilation This is the final Commsrisk article. The website will continue to host the Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard under the stewardship of James Greenley, the software engineer who created it, for as long as he can find financial backers to support that work.
This Is the Final Commsrisk Article. One Consortium Is a Sham. Thank You for Reading.
Cease to resist, giving my goodbye Drive my car into the ocean You’ll think I’m dead, but I sail away On a wave of mutilation This is the final Commsrisk article. The website will continue to host the Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard under the stewardship of James Greenley, the software engineer who created it, for as long as he can find financial backers to support that work.
AI Needs RA More than RA Needs AI
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose The more things change, the more they stay the same Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr I was reading this article by Zilan Qian, a research associate at the Oxford China Policy Lab about the use of ‘transfer stations’ to give Chinese citizens access to Claude at 10% of the original price, and I was struck by a depressing insight.
Disappointing Results Confirm Subex’s Decline
The results for Subex’s financial year ending March 31, 2026, were published last week. They were mediocre, and suggest the company remains on a downward trajectory. In 2022, I was still describing Subex as a ‘fundamentally sound business’ despite the CEO at that time, Vinod Kumar, admitting the company’s financial performance was below expectations. Annual revenues from operations were INR3.33bn at the 2022 year end.
YouTube SMS Blaster Ad Displays Scam Messages That Impersonate Telcos
Regular readers will know that YouTube is infested with adverts for SMS blasters, the fake base stations manufactured in China and purchased by criminals around the world so they can transmit scam messages to mobile phones. But even the most cynical readers may be appalled by today’s story.
Chinese SMS Blaster Scammer Attacks Eurovision in Vienna
A Chinese man was arrested in Austria after he drove a car carrying an SMS blaster near to the venue for the Eurovision Song Contest. The arrest happened on May 14, during the build-up to the second semi‑final of the competition, which hosted musical acts from 35 countries in the 16,000-seat Wiener Stadthalle.