Security News

Apple’s Device Analytics Can Identify iCloud Users
2022-11-22 15:28

Winter November 22, 2022 11:13 AM. Cardinal Richelieu has been quoted as saying he only needs six lines of the most honest man to condemn him to death. You do not need even three lines to get death threats.

iCloud hacker gets 9 years in prison for stealing nude photos
2022-06-16 21:51

A California man who hacked thousands of Apple iCloud accounts was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy and computer fraud in October 2021. Starting from as early as September 2014, 41-year-old Hao Kuo Chi from La Puente, California, started marketing himself as "Icloudripper4you," someone capable of breaching iCloud accounts and stealing anything contained in the linked iCloud storage.

Hackers steal $655K after picking MetaMask seed from iCloud backup
2022-04-18 18:12

MetaMask has published a warning for their iOS users about the seeds of cryptocurrency wallets being stored in Apple's iCloud if app data backup is active. MetaMask is a "Hot" cryptocurrency wallet used by over 21 million investors to store their wallet tokens and manage their digital assets.

How to add notes to iCloud passwords in macOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4
2022-02-18 15:34

How to add notes to iCloud passwords in macOS 12.3 and iOS 15.4. Now, with iOS 15.4 and macOS 12.3, Apple has added another feature to iCloud Keychain: Notes.

Apple's New iCloud Private Relay Service Leaks Users' Real IP Addresses
2021-09-24 21:55

A new as-yet unpatched weakness in Apple's iCloud Private Relay feature could be circumvented to leak users' true IP addresses from iOS devices running the latest version of the operating system. Introduced with iOS 15, which was officially released this week, iCloud Private Relay aims to improve anonymity on the web by employing a dual-hop architecture that effectively shields users' IP address, location, and DNS requests from websites and network service providers.

WhatsApp to offer end-to-end encrypted backups in iCloud, Google Drive with user-managed keys
2021-09-11 01:21

Facebook's WhatsApp on Friday said users will soon be able to store end-to-end encrypted backups of their chat history on Google Drive in Android or Apple iCloud in iOS, with an option to self-manage the encryption key. "We're adding another layer of privacy and security to WhatsApp: an end-to-end encryption option for the backups people choose to store in Google Drive or iCloud," said Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg in a missive on his platform.

California Man Hacked iCloud Accounts to Steal Nude Photos
2021-08-25 11:41

A California man impersonated an Apple customer support technician in a socially engineered email campaign that stole people's iCloud passwords to break into accounts and collected upwards of 620,000 private photos and videos. Hao Kuo Chi, 40, of La Puente, has agreed to plead guilty to four felonies, including conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to a computer, in a scam that ultimately aimed to steal and share nude images of young women, according to court records and a report by the Los Angeles Times.

Fake Apple rep amasses 620,000+ stolen iCloud pics, vids in hunt for images of nude women to trade
2021-08-24 21:37

A California man this month admitted he stole hundreds of thousands of photos and videos from strangers' Apple iCloud accounts to find and share images of nude young women. Chi, using the online name "Icloudripper4you," worked with other unidentified miscreants to obtain files from Apple customers' iCloud accounts by impersonating Apple customer support representatives in email messages.

Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMessage and iCloud Storage
2021-08-10 11:37

There are two main features that the company is planning to install in every Apple device. One is a scanning feature that will scan all photos as they get uploaded into iCloud Photos to see if they match a photo in the database of known child sexual abuse material maintained by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

How to secure your Safari browsing with iCloud Private Relay in iOS 15
2021-06-28 18:21

Using iCloud Private Relay in iOS 15, you can easily obscure your internet traffic and ensure that network providers cannot spy on your activity. With any paid iCloud plan in iOS 15, you will get access to a new service called iCloud Private Relay, which routes your web traffic in Safari anonymously through Apple's relay service, obscuring your location and IP address.