Amaya Toman At the beginning of January this year informed the Flight through the World server by Apple as one of the first about the occurrence of phishing in the form of SMS, with which attackers targeted owners of Apple devices. In fraudulent messages, they tried to convince that their iCloud account had been blocked. The text messages also included a link to a website that, to less experienced or less observant users, might appear to be actually run by Apple.
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Jaromir Miko The website required users to enter their credit card number, expiry date and even CVV/CVC code to supposedly unlock iCloud. Although it might seem that no one would fall for such a transparent trick with poorly worded message text, this attack has already claimed dozens of victims.
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In mid-January, the Ostrava police began to deal with the increasing number of cases of fraudulent text messages. To date, dozens of people have fallen victim to them, not only in the Moravian-Silesian Region, but throughout the Czech Republic. The news began to spread en masse in mid-December last year. One of their victims is a woman who lost 90 thousand crowns in this way. "Thanks to the complete data, the unknown offender obtained almost 90 by withdrawing from an ATM and paying for goods in an online store," she said in this context for Novinky.cz server police spokesperson Soňa Štětínská.
Dozens of people fell for the fraudulent messages despite the fact that their content was very awkwardly worded and the link to the alleged Apple website did not use a protocol for secure network communication.
