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A serious new warning doing the rounds in Asia has alerted Apple users to the risk of rogue VPNs and device profiles on their iPhones—“users may have been tricked to install suspicious apps via bogus websites, SMS messages and links to the malicious malware.” While the risks for most users are low, checking your device takes less than 30-seconds—and so it’s well worth the time.
This latest story broke after users were tricked into installing malware that accessed their bank accounts. While those targeted initially suspected a malicious power cable might have been the issue, in reality it was a dangerous profile they had been tricked into installing. “The scammers often waited for the user to go to sleep before they would trigger the malware to take control of the phone and open mobile banking apps to steal from their victims’ accounts.”
As ESET’s Jake Moore warns, “when playing around with device management, you must be extremely careful and confident with what you are installing. This is the closest users can get to editing device configurations, but if it’s malicious then dangers can follow.”
For those unlucky enough to fall foul, a dangerous profile would theoretically enable remote access to your device—it would certainly create a potential vulnerability. And while Apple locks down its own devices much more tightly than Android equivalents. The EU-inspired DMA changes to app installs from outside Apple’s own ecosystem will make these kinds of risks more likely.
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This latest story broke after users were tricked into installing malware that accessed their bank accounts. While those targeted initially suspected a malicious power cable might have been the issue, in reality it was a dangerous profile they had been tricked into installing. “The scammers often waited for the user to go to sleep before they would trigger the malware to take control of the phone and open mobile banking apps to steal from their victims’ accounts.”
As ESET’s Jake Moore warns, “when playing around with device management, you must be extremely careful and confident with what you are installing. This is the closest users can get to editing device configurations, but if it’s malicious then dangers can follow.”
For those unlucky enough to fall foul, a dangerous profile would theoretically enable remote access to your device—it would certainly create a potential vulnerability. And while Apple locks down its own devices much more tightly than Android equivalents. The EU-inspired DMA changes to app installs from outside Apple’s own ecosystem will make these kinds of risks more likely.
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