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iOS HTML Phishing Exploit Makes it Easy to Steal Users’ iCloud Passwords

posted by n1 on Thursday June 11 2015, @09:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the head-in-the-sand,-data-in-the-cloud dept.

darkfeline writes:

A security researcher has published attack code he said makes it easy to steal the iCloud passwords of people using the latest version of Apple iOS for iPhones and iPads.

The proof-of-concept attack exploits a flaw in Mail.app, the default iOS e-mail program. Since the release of version 8.3 in early April, the app has failed to properly strip out potentially dangerous HTML code from incoming e-mail messages. The proof-of-concept exploit capitalizes on this failure by downloading a form from a remote server that looks identical to the legitimate iCloud log-in prompt. It can be displayed each time the booby-trapped message is viewed.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/serious-ios-bug-makes-it-easy-to-steal-users-icloud-passwords/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @10:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @10:24PM (#195169)

    This could be used for harvesting any sort of account info, not just iCloud accounts. If someone is dumb enough to fall for an iCloud login form in the body of an email, they'd probably fall for any login form.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday June 12 2015, @05:55AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Friday June 12 2015, @05:55AM (#195281)

    Number 1---(where did I first hear this?) No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
    Number 2--- Every one who buys into the Apple myth believes that there is no way any iOS product is open to malware. So, suckers from the git-go.

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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Saturday June 13 2015, @02:36AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday June 13 2015, @02:36AM (#195614) Homepage

    From the article, it is NORMAL for the mail app to randomly prompt for your iCloud password. So an intelligent user wouldn't be crazy to enter his info into such a prompt. The prompt is also identical in appearance. The "fix" for this exploit is: don't enter your iCloud password while you have an email open (seriously).

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