Yahoo Tech reported:
On first glance, the attack sounds straightforward enough: the attackers launch a spoof pop-up window warning you that your computer is under attack. These popups appear on “typosquatted” websites — that is, malicious websites with URLs that are very similar to the real thing, such as one that deliberately misspells apple.com. They’re designed to look like the sites they’re impersonating so that victims don’t get suspicious and back out before it’s too late.
But this attack goes a step further by using some nefarious code to freeze your browser window. The goal is to manipulate you into thinking that your browser really has been compromised — after all, it’s seemingly no longer working.
Once that’s done, the popups present a fake login window that is designed to steal your Apple Account credentials.
Once you fill in your username and password, the hackers have access to everything locked behind your Apple Account’s protected front door. And if that doesn’t do the trick, the popups also display a phone number that the hackers control, which will connect you to someone who will attempt to steal your login credentials.
On first glance, the attack sounds straightforward enough: the attackers launch a spoof pop-up window warning you that your computer is under attack. These popups appear on “typosquatted” websites — that is, malicious websites with URLs that are very similar to the real thing, such as one that deliberately misspells apple.com. They’re designed to look like the sites they’re impersonating so that victims don’t get suspicious and back out before it’s too late.
But this attack goes a step further by using some nefarious code to freeze your browser window. The goal is to manipulate you into thinking that your browser really has been compromised — after all, it’s seemingly no longer working.
Once that’s done, the popups present a fake login window that is designed to steal your Apple Account credentials.
Once you fill in your username and password, the hackers have access to everything locked behind your Apple Account’s protected front door. And if that doesn’t do the trick, the popups also display a phone number that the hackers control, which will connect you to someone who will attempt to steal your login credentials.
Find the original article with examples of the screen here.
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