An unexpected message revolutionized Apple News!
Cybercriminals don’t rest. And, of course, it’s not just about perpetrating attacks, but all the strategies that proliferate to put any system at risk. This time, Apple was the target of a recent attackin particular via its Apple News app.
As reported by several profiles Twitter, thanks to a hack, Apple News is sending offensive notifications to its users. According to shared details, The attacker identified himself as “Thrax” and used the Fast Company account to achieve his goal.
Apple News was the target of a cybercriminal
Evidence of the apparent hack began circulating on Twitter on Tuesday evening, when iPhone users posted screenshots confirming the same experience. The offensive notification with racist content ended with the message “Thrax was here”without until today it has been possible to know their real identity.
Is it just me or did someone else get this notification from the Fast Company Apple News post? 😒🤔 @FastCompany @AppleNews pic.twitter.com/8a678S4ZsB
– Salsa Salsa (@PPLUSROB) September 28, 2022
While it’s not known for sure how it happened, neither Apple has shared many details about it, according to information shared by 9to5mac, it is highly unlikely that the Apple News platform has been compromised in any way. Since this is a single publisher incident, it is more likely that the publisher’s Apple ID was specifically accessed without authorization.How to know if your Mac has been hacked or has a virus: all the details you need to know
In this regard, if you somehow accessed the Fast Company Apple ID associated with Apple’s News Publisher web application, it would be possible to send the notice through the publication’s Apple News profile. However, to ensure that all posts have the same flow, Apple doesn’t directly approve every post, filtering messages or words. Although after this experience it would be worth thinking about something similar.
Apple’s hardware and software security systems are one of the company’s great reasons for pride. And even if Apple claims it the verification of the protocols is quite frequent it also seems impossible to shield oneself One hundred percent of these situations occur for different reasons.
It sounds harmless, but this simple cable is a very advanced hack tool
