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Hackers threaten to wipe Apple devices

March 23, 2017 admin apple, Apple ID, cybercrime, data breach, icloud, iOS, iPhone, Mac Cybercrime, phishing

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:00:40 +0000

According to a report from Motherboard, a group of hackers calling themselves “Turkish Crime Family” is threatening to remotely erase devices belonging to hundreds of millions of Apple customers. They will do this on April 7, they say, if Apple doesn’t pay them a ransom.

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Kaspersky Security

Kaspersky AdCleaner: Anti-Banner for iOS

March 23, 2017 admin ad-block, adcleaner, ads, advertisement, banners, iOS, iPad, iPhone, ipm, kaspersky, kaspersky lab, privacy, Products, Special Project, Tips

Credit to Author: John Snow| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:00:06 +0000

Kaspersky AdCleaner is our ad-blocking tool for iOS. Use it to forget about banners, prolong battery life, and open websites faster!

MalwareBytes Security

Two new Mac backdoors discovered

March 1, 2017 admin anti-malware, apple, cybercrime, iOS, iPhone, Mac, MacOS, malware, XAgent, XProtect

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:00:33 +0000

On Valentine’s Day, Mac users got a special “treat” in the form of new malware. Now, just a week later, there are signs of yet another piece of malware looming. This brings the count of malware (as opposed to adware or other threats) discovered for macOS this year up to 4, in only two short months.

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Tags: Anti-Malware Apple iOS iPhone mac macOS malware XAgent XProtect

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Independent Krebs

iPhone Robbers Try to iPhish Victims

February 24, 2017 admin apple, Edu Rabin, findmyiphone, iPhone, Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:21:24 +0000

In another strange tale from the kinetic-attack-meets-cyberattack department, earlier this week I heard from a loyal reader in Brazil whose wife was recently mugged by three robbers who nabbed her iPhone. Not long after the husband texted the stolen phone — offering to buy back the locked device — he soon began receiving text messages stating the phone had been found. All he had to do to begin the process of retrieving the device was click the texted link and log in to the phishing page mimicking Apple’s site.

Security Wired

The New iOS Update Fixes Big Security Holes, So Get It Now

January 23, 2017 admin apple, iOS, ios 10.2.1, iPhone, patches, Security, vulnerabilities, Webkit

Apple just released an iOS update full of security fixes that you need to jump on. The post The New iOS Update Fixes Big Security Holes, So Get It Now appeared first on WIRED.