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It’s only been a week weeks since a researcher released an iOS exploit that could allow outsiders to jailbreak an iPhone, but scammers already are leveraging the tool to try commandeer victims’ phones. Last month, a researcher known as @axi0mx published checkm8, a series of technical instructions that enable users to remove restrictions imposed on their iPhone by Apple or telecommunication companies. Now, after weeks of publicity around checkm8, attackers have launched a malicious website that masquerades as a legitimate page, only to launch a hacking tool that tries to take over an affected device. Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence crew on Tuesday said they found checkrain[.]com, a site meant to look like an offshoot of checkra1n, a legitimate project that researchers can use to modify their iPhone’s processes and jailbreak their device. Instead of allowing that, though, the malicious checkrain site encourages visitors to download an application that clicks on […]

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