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Title: Chinese government apparently phishing iCloud account info with man-in-the-middle attack
Post by: HCK on October 20, 2014, 03:00:28 pm
Chinese government apparently phishing iCloud account info with man-in-the-middle attack

Although unconfirmed, GreatFire is reporting that Apple is now the subject of Chinese government hacking attempts. According to the report, the government is using the institutional firewall to redirect traffic directed at iCloud.com to a fake page that resembles the iCloud.com interface almost perfectly. Like other phishing attacks, this page is pretending to be Apple’s portal […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=347885&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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