Despite its high safety standards has been proven since the iPhone may actually be hacked with such simple methods as the use of a text message. Now, is reported a new form of violate these devices, through a deception made that will make believe to them users unsuspecting that its devices has been blocked and kidnapped, when actually is almost intact.
According to a report by the Apple Tips site, originally from the Netherlands, have begun to receive reports of different users of Apple in the region on a new “ransomware”, where, from nowhere a strange message appears in the device locked screen iOS, informing that the terminal has been kidnapped and that it is necessary to make a payment by USD $50.00.
(C) Apple TipsThe reality, according to 9to5mac report, is that it is a less complicated situation, although it involves the theft of the access data of the Apple ID. The process of this “hack” would be to steal the login details of the credentials through phishing sites false and unrelated to Apple, then use the function Search iPhone, aiming to change the message displayed on the locked screen.
It is enough to slide finger and enter daily unlock sequence to access the device without a problem, but users who not dominate these functions of the terminal could believe that in reality you have hacked the iPhone, resulting in the payment for the rescue of a terminal that has not been compromised, at least in its entirety.
By the time this phenomenon stays within European territory, but could expand in the next few days.
