---
id: 6179
title: "Exposing a Global Smishing Operation Across 19 Countries: Governments, Postal Services, and Telecoms Targeted"
source_domain: hunt.io
source_url: "https://hunt.io/blog/massive-smishing-campaign-governments-postal-telecoms"
published_at: "2026-05-27T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["threat-intelligence", "threat-hunting", "phishing", "government", "telecom", "smishing", "postal-services"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/6179"
lang: en
---

# Exposing a Global Smishing Operation Across 19 Countries: Governments, Postal Services, and Telecoms Targeted

## Summary

Hunt.io traces a coordinated smishing operation across 19 countries: 1,628 malicious URLs and 32 backend IPs targeting government, postal and telecom services on three continents.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hunt.io
- **Published:** 2026-05-27T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://hunt.io/blog/massive-smishing-campaign-governments-postal-telecoms
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/6179