Phishing is one of the increasing cyber attack that has a high success rate as it exploits the human trust. Phishing is usually done to steal some sensitive information. Recently a new phishing scam has been uncovered in twitter.
Phishing is usually done by creating a fake website and luring the victim to visit the page and give away the sensitive information. It can be password, debit/credit card details and also ATM pin.
Few days back there has been posts in twitter by some celebrities stating that they received message (text) stating that "Your iCloud account has been deactivated and needs to be reactivated by clicking the link below".
There is a link below which will take you to some other site and there it gets the passwords and thus the account can be compromised or can be used for any other cyber attacks.
It has been posted by two celebrities in twitter and Apple stated that they didnt send any message like this.
It is very normal for users to receive messages pretending to be from Banks asking for details and may also from any financial organizations.
Users are recommended not to respond to this kind of messages and if done it is highly recommended to change the password immediately.
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P.S: The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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