BLACKSBURG, Va., March 26 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Every day, millions of people feel their phones buzz with the world's most irritating notification: a spam call.
According to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, there were 29.6 billion of these unwanted robocalls in 2025 alone. Spam, scam, or robocalls are calls made to mobile phones from either a program or a real person with the intent to steal information and money.
But a team of Virginia Tech researchers from the Brain-Inspired Computing, Communication, and Security Center based in the greater Washington, D.C. area is working to put an end to spam calls altogether.
"We've discovered a lot of these spam calls actu...