Hot on the heels of hackers stealing celebrities’ nude photos from their iCloud accounts and posting them on the Web comes news that iCloud users are being targeted again — this time by a botnet. The Kelihos botnet is sending emails purporting to be from Apple, informing targets they have purchased the film Lane Splitter through their iTunes account using a PC or other device not previously linked to their Apple ID, Symantec reported. It asks them to provide the ID information.
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Botnet Twists the Knife in iCloud Security
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 10, 2014 07:00 AMHot on the heels of hackers stealing celebrities’ nude photos from their iCloud accounts and posting them on the Web comes news that iCloud users are being targeted again — this time by a botnet. The Kelihos botnet is sending emails purporting to be from Apple, informing targets they have purchased the film Lane Splitter through their iTunes account using a PC or other device not previously linked to their Apple ID, Symantec reported. It asks them to provide the ID information.