I think the most important take away from the article is this:
"We're going to see more attacks that are leveraging WiFi hotspots, fake base stations or even more aggressive exploitation of mobile browsers or messaging applications," he told TechNewsWorld.
This is a growing problem, and people who leave their wifi on all the time are going to be most susceptible to this attack vector. Most mobile devices have wifi turned on by default and configured to connect to any available wifi hotspot. Without some basic changes to the out-of-the-box OS, the uninitiated and misinformed among us are going to inadvertently put themselves into harm's way.
I thought so too. I posted an article on FR not too long ago about faux cell towers spoofing cell phones near military bases around the country intercepting calls and passing them on into the cell system. . . but no one knows whose they are. . . and what's being done with the cell traffic that goes through those "fake" or "unaffiliated" towers.