The U.K. national fraud and cyber reporting centre operated by law enforcement, Action Fraud, has issued a warning for iPhone users after it received more than 1,800 reports of a nasty new Apple ID password-stealing phishing campaign.<\/p>\n
“Your iCloud Storage Is Nearing Capacity\u2014Please Click Here To Upgrade”<\/p>\n
The emails being sent to iPhone users through services such as Apple Mail, Gmail and Outlook claim to be from Apple but, as with all such phishing scams, are nothing of the sort. This particular campaign, which Action Fraud said has been ongoing for just two weeks and resulted in 1,861 official reports filed so far, claims that iCloud storage belonging to the recipient is almost full. This is understandably alarming as many users will save their iPhone photos and personal documents to the cloud with Apple\u2019s service. The criminals rely upon this alarm, this fear, to produce a knee-jerk and panicked reaction from the reader.<\/p>\n
One simply claimed to be offering a \u201cloyalty program\u201d reward of an additional 50GB of space for files on iCloud, complete with a big \u201cReceive 50GB\u201d button to click. The other was more detailed, claiming an existing payment method had expired and showing a capacity toolbar claiming the iCloud Drive was almost full. This one included a link for the recipient to update their payment details. Both, however, lead to malicious sites that attempt to steal everything from your Apple ID credentials to payment card details and other financial and personal information.<\/p>\n