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China Staging a Nationwide Attack On iCloud and Microsoft Accounts
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).
If you use Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or IE in China, they will all warn you that MiTM attack has occurred (if you trying going to https://icloud.com./ But the most popular browser used in China (according to Qihoo, the claim is dubious), Qihoo’s Chinese 360 "Secure Browser". will allow Man in the middle attacks to occur, by design.
Are the Chinese officials trying to score some celebrity porn?
It's possibly related to the protests in Hong Kong and the government's desire to identify the leaders/participants.
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It's almost like they are a... communist country.
Right -- only a communist country would attempt such shenanigans. Western democracies are totally above that sort of misbehavior. ;^)
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