Phishing Scam: Apple Store

Trend Micro, the antivirus company, has a Malware Blog where they track all the poor stuff that can happen to your computer. Although the screenshots come from Windows machines, they did have one up that week that showed the Apple Store. Sneaky (and smart) phishers are sending emails that say there is a problem with your billing, and they weren’t able to process the payment. Pretty sneaky considering there are likely a lot of citizens who have just purchased a 3G iPhone. Very smart timing, whether you ask me.

The mail takes the user to an Apple look alike site that asks for the “user’s credit card type, credit card number, expiration period, safety measure cipher, billing address and social defense number.” In addition to the grief that comes with having your identity stolen, that info could give the phishers full access to all purchases that can be made

from Apple: hardware, software, iTunes detail, and iPhoto products.

This is one of the drawbacks of Apple’s great success. Unix is pretty solid and secure, but humans have never put much effort into attacking Macs considering of the economies of scale. Now that Macs are becoming more popular, we will likely see more malware attempts aimed at Apple hardware, software, and customers. Hopefully, it won’t ever get as poor as it is on any PC.

Don’t visit on those hyperlinks in emails. Go to the site directly. Be certain to check and build certain it is a secure website you are using. You can tell considering it will start with https:// or have a lock in the status bar (not in Safari).

Orginal post by Jethro Jones