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China Staging a Nationwide Attack On iCloud and Microsoft Accounts

Posted by Soulskill on from the secure-browsing-advised dept.

New submitter DemonOnIce writes: According to The Verge and an original report from the site that monitor's China's Great Firewall activity, China is conducting a large-scale attack on iCloud and Microsoft accounts using its government firewall software. Chinese users may be facing an unpleasant surprise as they are directed to a dummy site designed to look like an Apple login page (or a Microsoft one, as appropriate).

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  1. Re:Popular US browsers will warm, Chinese ones won by QuantumReality · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't be naive. It's so easy to do it without warning. I can tell you at least 3 different methods of doing that. Remember, it's not just a single hacker, but government that controls whole traffic, that can impersonate not only any domain but any ip they want, they control BGP.