Symantec has discovered a new phishing that targets those with Apple IDs. The scam is simple in nature. Spam emails that purport to be security alerts from Apple show up in your inbox to inform you that a purchase was made using their Apple ID from the iTunes Store. You’re then meant to click on a link if you didn’t initiate the purchase. The link leads to a phishing site that masquerades as the Apple ID log-in page and harvests credentials inputted by users so that some unspeakable evil can take place via those Apple IDs.
Clever.
Clearly you should be on the lookout for these sorts of e-mails. On top of that, you should do what I’ve been saying since this began. Which is to have a strong password as well as using two factor authentication on your iCloud account which is more important in this case. That should prevent anything bad from happening to you if you happen to click on a phishing e-mail as they will need to get a code from Apple that would only be sent to one of your trusted devices and there’s no way for the scumbags to intercept that.
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Beware: Apple ID Phishing Scam Discovered
Symantec has discovered a new phishing that targets those with Apple IDs. The scam is simple in nature. Spam emails that purport to be security alerts from Apple show up in your inbox to inform you that a purchase was made using their Apple ID from the iTunes Store. You’re then meant to click on a link if you didn’t initiate the purchase. The link leads to a phishing site that masquerades as the Apple ID log-in page and harvests credentials inputted by users so that some unspeakable evil can take place via those Apple IDs.
Clever.
Clearly you should be on the lookout for these sorts of e-mails. On top of that, you should do what I’ve been saying since this began. Which is to have a strong password as well as using two factor authentication on your iCloud account which is more important in this case. That should prevent anything bad from happening to you if you happen to click on a phishing e-mail as they will need to get a code from Apple that would only be sent to one of your trusted devices and there’s no way for the scumbags to intercept that.
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