{"id":22417,"date":"2018-08-09T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22417"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:37:40","slug":"apple-users-most-appealing-to-cybercriminals-online-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/09\/apple-users-most-appealing-to-cybercriminals-online-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Users &ldquo;Most Appealing&rdquo; to Cybercriminals&rsquo; Online Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3293922\/security\/apple-users-most-appealing-to-cybercriminals-online-scams.html\">Jonny Evans<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thomasareed\/status\/1025097064189964290\">Thomas Reed<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3293922\/security\/apple-users-most-appealing-to-cybercriminals-online-scams.html\"><p>Top10VPN&rsquo;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top10vpn.com\/privacy-central\/cybersecurity\/dark-web-market-price-index-hacking-tools-us-edition\/\">Dark Web Market Price Index<\/a> suggests Apple users are becoming the most popular targets for online scammers. In March, the index reported that Apple ID data trades hands at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/article\/3261128\/apple-ios\/criminals-pay-just-15-for-apple-icloud-account-ids-report-claims.html?nsdr=true\">$15 per account<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>One thing the report does suggest is that rather than platform-based attacks, cybercriminals are moving to trust-based attacks to target the valuable Apple demographic. They work to persuade users to click on innocuous-seeming pages, persuade them to enter banking details on spoof banking pages, and so on. Apple is wise to this, and to help protect customers, it recently introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applemust.com\/how-to-use-apples-new-privacy-feature-for-ios-and-mac\/\">new phishing protection tools<\/a> for Macs and iOS devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Evans (via Thomas Reed): Top10VPN&rsquo;s latest Dark Web Market Price Index suggests Apple users are becoming the most popular targets for online scammers. In March, the index reported that Apple ID data trades hands at $15 per account.[&#8230;]One thing the report does suggest is that rather than platform-based attacks, cybercriminals are moving to trust-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-08-09T20:37:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"ac85ac93-3bf7-4f2c-bbf9-dd5ee8bbeac2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-08-09T20:37:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ArIWskzv3Tyy7-d1e6Lvqwg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[707,31,1472,30,1529,1200],"class_list":["post-22417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-id","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-phishing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22418,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22417\/revisions\/22418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}