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A new report from Check Point, a cybersecurity company, says Apple customers are a prime target for phishing campaigns. They alone represent 10% of the overall phishing attack attempts. Check Point partly explains this by the fact that Apple IDs are particularly popular on the dark web, before those of Netflix accounts.

In its report, Check Point underlines how much the hackers make the means to deceive their victims by proposing probable versions of the official sites to recover the identifiers Apple. In fact, the Apple site would be the most imitated in the context of phishing attempts in the first quarter of 2020. Phishing on the Web was the first vector for this type of attack, followed by phishing on smartphones and finally, the mails.

To avoid phishing, check the spelling of the email

After Apple, Netflix is ​​the second most used brand in phishing campaigns, followed by Yahoo, WhatsApp, PayPal, Chase, Facebook, Microsoft, eBay and Amazon.

Check Point recalls how important it is to be critical when receiving or seeing a promotional offer too good to be true, including an 80% reduction on the iPhone 11 for example. The firm also advises to check the authenticity of the email address that contacts you, as well as the website on which you are to make sure that it is indeed the Apple site. Spelling mistakes are clues to take into account to identify the falsity of a site.

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  • Cyber ​​attack
  • Netflix
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cybercriminality
  • High-Tech
  • Apple
  • Personal data
  • Phishing