JAKARTA - In the middle of the curiosity of the millions of iPhone lovers and other smartphone users to wait for the launch of the latest iPhone, the iPhone 5S and 5C, the threat of cyber crime has been lurking.
Cyber criminals take advantage of this moment to perform an action with the contents spread spam promising to give the latest iPhone products for free in the guise of a contest.
Trend Micro found examples of spam messages that are trying to cheat via email notification from the Apple Store.
"We found examples of spam messages that attempt to trick email notifications Apple Store. The spam message informs recipients that they have won an iPhone 5S and iPad, "said Merianne Pollintan, researchers Trend Micro Anti-Spam in a statement on Tuesday (17/09/2013).
To get the gift, the recipient was asked to go to a spam website and asked to know their email address and their password. This obviously resulted credentials spam email recipients are in the hands of cyber criminals.
The message content and sender email address is obviously fake. But, however, the combination of right timing plus the hook of social engineering (manipulating the action to do something unwanted or confidential information), likely causing this spam email recipients fall into the trap of sending spam.
Related to this phishing email, the report indicates that the Smart Protection Network is a very effective email spam attack users in Southeast Asia. Malaysia and Singapore are the countries most heavily affected by the iPhone 5S is a phishing email.
Cyber criminals take advantage of this moment to perform an action with the contents spread spam promising to give the latest iPhone products for free in the guise of a contest.
Trend Micro found examples of spam messages that are trying to cheat via email notification from the Apple Store.
"We found examples of spam messages that attempt to trick email notifications Apple Store. The spam message informs recipients that they have won an iPhone 5S and iPad, "said Merianne Pollintan, researchers Trend Micro Anti-Spam in a statement on Tuesday (17/09/2013).
To get the gift, the recipient was asked to go to a spam website and asked to know their email address and their password. This obviously resulted credentials spam email recipients are in the hands of cyber criminals.
The message content and sender email address is obviously fake. But, however, the combination of right timing plus the hook of social engineering (manipulating the action to do something unwanted or confidential information), likely causing this spam email recipients fall into the trap of sending spam.
Related to this phishing email, the report indicates that the Smart Protection Network is a very effective email spam attack users in Southeast Asia. Malaysia and Singapore are the countries most heavily affected by the iPhone 5S is a phishing email.
