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Security experts say they are skeptical that a group called Turkish Crime Family actually possess a cache of hundreds of millions of Apple iCloud account credentials. Continue reading Experts Doubt Hackers’ Claim Of Millions Of Breached Apple Credentials
As Brits slept, the phishing gangs were up to their old tricks – spamming out SMS messages purporting to be warnings from Apple that our Apple IDs were due to expire today, and that we should act quickly.
Continue reading As the clocks go back, UK Apple users targeted by smishing campaign
Affected Apple users, you’re not alone! Many are being hit. It’s yet another good reason to pick strong, **unique** passwords. Continue reading Poor and/or reused passwords lead to Chinese spam flood on iMessage
The top Clinton campaign official has had a brand new Outlook account broken into and his Twitter account hijacked. Blame password reuse! Continue reading Clinton campaign official’s Twitter account hijacked: “I’ve switched teams”
If a scammer gets hold of your lost iPhone, it’s the perfect time for them to try to phish your password from you.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Lost your iPhone? Be on guard for a perfectly-timed Apple ID phishing attack
Steve Ragan of CSO Online:
“On July 1, Alanna Coca noticed her iPad had started beeping. When she opened the cover, the lock screen had a message displaying a phrase in Russian – “Dlya polucheniya parolya, napshite na email” – followed by a Gmail address.”
“Roughly translated, the phrase was telling her that in order to receive a password, she’ll need to email the address displayed.”
Such attacks aren’t unusual (you may remember a message from Russian hacker Oleg Pliss popping up on some users’ iMacs, iPhones and iPads back in 2014), and are perpetrated by a hacker putting a victim’s device into lost mode after breaking into their Apple ID account.
A message sent by the hacker to the locked device asks for the victim to get in touch to arrange the ransom payment, and may even make a veiled threat that the device’s data will be erased if cash is not transferred promptly.
What spices things up a little more this time is that Ragan reports rumours of a massive data breach at Apple potentially impacting 40 million iCloud accounts.
That may be nonsense, of course – it’s possible that accounts have fallen under the control of hackers because of less sensational reasons – such as poor password choices, phishing or reusing the same password on multiple sites.
What is clear is that some Apple users are having their devices hijacked by extortionists. So make sure that you have a unique, hard-to-crack, hard-to-guess password protecting your Apple ID account.
And, if you haven’t already done so, I strongly recommend enabling two-step verification on your Apple ID account to make it harder for hackers to break in.
Read more on CSO Online.
Continue reading Apple devices held for ransom, massive iCloud account hack rumours
Scammers are once again targeting Apple customers in their attempt to hijack accounts and steal payment information.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading ⊛ Scammers claim there is a virus in Apple’s iTunes database
You would be wrong to think that this is just an attempt by the criminals to steal your Apple ID password – bad as that would be. It’s much worse than that.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading SMS phishing attackers continue to pursue Apple users
It’s not just your bank accounts that online criminals are keen to break into. They would quite like to hijack your Apple ID credentials too.
Continue reading Watch out! There are Apple ID SMS phishers about!