Russia arrests two in iPhone ransomware attacks
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 06/11/2014 10:20 AM
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Two chaps suspected of conducting ransomware attacks on iPhones were arrested by the Russian Interior Ministry.
The suspects' attacks started with phishing, but also mentions a second attack that Google Translate tells us worked like this:
“The second scheme was aimed at binding of another device to a prearranged account, and to that end at various Internet resources to create ads for lease Apple ID, containing a large amount of media content.”
That validates Apple's insistence that its iCloud service was not compromised.
Two men, one born in 1991 and another in 1998, were arrested over the allegations. When police searched the mens apartment, they found “computer equipment, sim cards and phones used in illegal activities, as well as literature on hacking computer systems.”
The suspects' attacks started with phishing, but also mentions a second attack that Google Translate tells us worked like this:
“The second scheme was aimed at binding of another device to a prearranged account, and to that end at various Internet resources to create ads for lease Apple ID, containing a large amount of media content.”
That validates Apple's insistence that its iCloud service was not compromised.
Two men, one born in 1991 and another in 1998, were arrested over the allegations. When police searched the mens apartment, they found “computer equipment, sim cards and phones used in illegal activities, as well as literature on hacking computer systems.”
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