CUPERTINO: American tech giant Apple has issued a new warning for iPhone users to stay vigilant of spyware attacks in 98 countries.
The guidance comes as the phone-making company warns of a significant uptick in hackers using sophisticated strategies to fool individuals, especially the elderly, into disclosing personal information.
In such scams fake emails imitating legitimate companies, deceptive pop-up ads, and phone calls, are used to doge the users.
In this method known as spoofing calls from genuine phone numbers are made falsely claiming urgent issues such as iCloud account.
“Scammers use fake Caller ID info to spoof phone numbers of companies like Apple and often claim that there’s suspicious activity on your account or device to get your attention,” Apple stated in the new memo.
The hackers may use flattery or threats to pressurize Apple users into giving them information, money, and even Apple gift cards. It is pertinent to mention that AI has made fake voices far more believable, causing a surge in voice scams with culprits posing as family members.
How to avoid such cyberattacks?
Apple has advised its users to be aware of giveaways that lack proper information of the sender, such as uniform resource locator (URL) links not matching a company’s site or messages that don’t match last correspondence and requests for sensitive information like credit card or password.
The tech giant also said that it had always asked users to never share personal information like passwords. It said users may use two-factor authentication to verify a login.
Additionally, Apple asks users to avoid making payments with Apple gift cards and be cautious while downloading software.
