Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Phishing Attack Apple Users

Trend Micro, a global security vendor and cloud managed to identify any phishing activities (internet crime who use email as a distribution media). Target of the attack this time was the owner of an Apple product.



Some users of Apple's products and services have received an email claiming to be from Apple that inform about changes in personal data which they have done.


In his press statement on Friday (11.11.2011), Trend Micro's security research team, after investigating the email, phishing has proved the existence of action on behalf of Apple. After the message is opened, Trend Micro, and then compare it with similar email from Apple that the original shipment.

Two emails are almost the same at first glance, it turns out one of them is a trap by entering a link that asks you to enter personal data via the Apple site ID made ​​the phisher who appears to have ads at the bottom of the page.

And when you get stuck, without realizing it you will be prompted to enter your username and password, which will be stolen by them. Watch and see at first the original email from Apple and email from Apple claiming that the email sent by the sender in writing: do_not_reply@itunes.com via smtp.com, Gmail also detect that the email was sent using third party email service.