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My Journey to the Center of America’s Political Spam Text Hell

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My Journey to the Center of America’s Political Spam Text Hell

A journalist received approximately 2,000 misdirected campaign fundraising text messages and investigated the underlying infrastructure. The reporting exposed involvement of politicians, data brokers, and questionable practices in political text messaging campaigns.

Why it matters: Security practitioners managing corporate communications should understand how data broker practices and SMS routing failures create attack surface for social engineering and credential harvesting campaigns impersonating legitimate sources.

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