Government cash for telecom operators to stop cybercriminals | VRT NWS: news

Fake texts sent by cybercriminals. Who hasn’t received one? But Belgian telecoms minister Petra De Sutter (Flemish green) hopes they will soon be a thing of the past. She has now reached an agreement with telecom operators Proximus and Telenet aimed at blocking fraudulent text messages. The operators are getting two million euros to develop the necessary software to block fraudulent texts.