A number of users in Australia woke up yesterday and found their i-devices hacked by an "Oleg Pliss" asking for a ransom of $ 100 / € 100 in a PayPal account to leave the device unlocked. There is a real Oleg Pliss and he is a software engineer working at Oracle but he is definitely not this hacker.
The ransom for ransom money has been confirmed by its users Apple Community Support , where a customer (named veritylikestea in the Apple forum) relays his experience as follows:
"I was working with my ipad a while ago, when it suddenly locked itself, without me asking him to do so. I went to check my phone and there was a message on the screen (it's still there) saying that my device (s) was hacked by "Oleg Pliss" and he / she demanded $ 100 USD / EUR […] to return it to me ”.
“I have exactly the same problem, with the same message from “Oleg Pliss”, writes another user named Rojmer. “I guess I can delete everything on my phone, but can it get any better than that? I have changed my iCloud password”.
iPad, iPhone and Mac computers in Queensland, NSW, West Australia, South Australia and Victoria have reported being held hostage.
Of course a solution security that will prevent hackers from holding you hostage is to use the two-factor authentication that Apple offers its customers according to http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5570.
The Sydney Morning Herald he says that the IT security expert Mr Troy Hunt λέει ότι οι hackers χρησιμοποιούν ελλειπή διαπιστευτήρια σύνδεσης από τις πρόσφατες παραβιάσεις data. Στη ουσία γίνεται το εξής: Using the same code across multiple online services can put you at risk.
"It's very likely that all of this is happening because someone is leveraging the same password they found on another service," Mr Hunt said. "Whether you think it's too hard for someone to guess a password, if they've been exposed to another service, or if you've been exposed to unencrypted data, then you're compromising every other service where it has the same code."
