Be Careful Fraud Ahead Of IPhone Launching 14, Criminals Can Curry Your Account Via Phishing

JAKARTA - Apple has confirmed that the long-awaited version of the iPhone 14 will be announced to the public on September 7 during Apple's global event in September.

Kaspersky experts have found many examples of phishing pages offering iPhone 14 purchases, but they are actually designed to vacate the victim's bank account and steal the user's Apple ID account.

Overall, from August 10 to 25, Kaspersky's security solutions detected more than 8,700 phishing sites related to the latest iPhones.

As the announcement date for the iPhone 14 gets closer, the number of phishing pages also increases.

Prior to the emergence of new iPhones on the market, cybercriminals created fake shop pages offering for the latest smartphone pre-orders at discount prices, or even buying them before the official announcement.

Since the official iPhone 14 photo has not appeared online, the attacker uses an old phone model photo to attract the user's attention.

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"The cybercriminals often monitor new trends far more active than ordinary users. They are constantly looking for something popular that will attract people's interest, and therefore it can be used as bait to trick them into including credentials or payment data," said Olga Svistunova, security expert at Kaspersky in a release received in Jakarta.

Not only at the launch of the new iPhone model, but cybercriminals can pay more attention, not only by tricking victims into paying orders on fake pages, but also trying to gain access to their Apple IDs.

The criminals will imitate the standard Apple ID login page, and trick the victim into entering their username and password on phishing pages. Then the attacker will gain access to all the victim's email addresses and login passwords, as well as contact and payment information, and iCloud where the victim stores documents and other personal photos.

These photos can later be used by attackers for identity theft or even extortion.

"The presence of the new iPhone 14 is no exception and every year we see an increase in attacker activity around the annual release of the latest iPhone model. This is why users must always be very careful and not enter their personal data on suspicious pages, to avoid becoming victims of cybercriminals," added Svistunova.

To avoid falling victim to a scam, Kaspersky recommends users: