The U.S. is under a different sort of cyberattack — one that ultimately could be just as damaging and threatening as recent attacks on financial institutions and infrastructure that occurred over the internet. This threat, though not new, is the growing proliferation of robocalls within our telecommunications infrastructure.
In 2017, complaints to the FTC about robocalls had quintupled over the amount in 2009 to over 375,000 complaints per month. Furthermore, it is estimated that in 2019 over half of the calls individuals receive will be robocalls and, with the advances in technology, over 90 percent of those will be “spoofed” — that is, they will show a caller ID that is not the real number.