Beware support calls offering a fix
Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.to be happening to others by security blogger Brian Krebs – the campaign appears to be targeting specific individuals, who are flooded with password reset requests.
Around 15 minutes after clearing the notifications, Patel said he was called by someone spoofing their caller ID to pretend they were calling from Apple's actual support line. The caller informed Patel his account was under attack, and asked him to verify his information and provide a one-time reset code – ostensibly so the attacker could reset his password on their own.
"I distinctly remember mixing me up with a midwestern elementary school teacher named Anthony S," Patel said, and that clued him in that the whole thing was a scam., which only asks for an email address and a solved CAPTCHA, in addition to knowing the account's phone number, to send a password reset request.
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