Chinese authorities have launched man-in-the-middle attacks on Apple’s iCloud.com and Microsoft’s Login.live.co that are ongoing, according to Greatfire.org. Qihoo 360 browser users’ local connections to iCloud.com are being rerouted to a dummy site that’s identical to Apple’s login page. Users of Firefox or Chrome land on a warning page instead. The attack on iCloud reportedly is nationwide. It’s taking place at the level of the Great Firewall, so it’s likely an effort to harvest usernames and passwords, as well as data stored on iCloud.
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Chinese Officials Kick In Apple, MS Cloud Doors
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 21, 2014 09:14 AMChinese authorities have launched man-in-the-middle attacks on Apple’s iCloud.com and Microsoft’s Login.live.co that are ongoing, according to Greatfire.org. Qihoo 360 browser users’ local connections to iCloud.com are being rerouted to a dummy site that’s identical to Apple’s login page. Users of Firefox or Chrome land on a warning page instead. The attack on iCloud reportedly is nationwide. It’s taking place at the level of the Great Firewall, so it’s likely an effort to harvest usernames and passwords, as well as data stored on iCloud.