Roughly translated, the phrase was telling her that in order to receive a password, she'll need to email the address displayed.

When she opened the cover, the lock screen had a message displaying a phrase in Russian – ' Dlya polucheniya parolya, napshite na email' – followed by a Gmail address. On July 1, Alanna Coca noticed her iPad had started beeping. If a victim contacts the referenced email address, in addition to payment instructions, they're told they have 12 hours to comply or their data will be deleted. In each of the cases reported publicly, the ransom demanded is usually $30 to $50. At this point, they can lock the device, post a message to the lock screen and trigger a sound to play, drawing attention to it. From there, the attacker uses Find My iPhone and places the victim's device into lost mode. With those arrests, it was assumed the scams were finished.īut since at least February of this year, the scams have returned and the most recent cases are targeting users in Europe and the United States, but the methods used by the attackers are the same ones that were popular two years ago. The Russian Interior Ministry announced in June of 2014 that two people were arrested for blocking Apple devices to extort funds. In 2014, someone (or perhaps more than one person) using the name 'Oleg Pliss' held an unknown number of Australian Apple devices for ransom, demanding a payment of $100.

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