Russian Interior Ministry cuffs iPhone ransomware suspects

  • 10 June 2014
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"Quote" Russian Interior Ministry cuffs iPhone ransomware suspects
 
By Simon Sharwood, 10 Jun 2014
 
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Russia's Interior Ministry has announced the arrest of two chaps suspected of conducting ransomware attacks on iPhones.
The Ministry's statement on the arrests describes a modus operandi that sounds an awful lot like that employed by “Oleg Pliss”, an entity that last month remotely locked iThings in Australia. Apple later recommended owners of iThings and iCloud accounts reset their passwords.
 
The Register/ Full Read Here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/10/russian_interior_ministry_cuffs_iphone_ransomware_suspects/
 

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