{"id":271115,"date":"2026-06-12T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/thieves-use-fake-apple-pages-to-trick-stolen-iphone-owners-for-passcodes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:10:11","slug":"thieves-use-fake-apple-pages-to-trick-stolen-iphone-owners-for-passcodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/thieves-use-fake-apple-pages-to-trick-stolen-iphone-owners-for-passcodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves use fake Apple pages to trick stolen iPhone owners for passcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/stolen-iphones-fuel-scary-passcode-scam\">Thieves use fake Apple pages to trick stolen iPhone owners for passcodes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/stolen-iphones-fuel-scary-passcode-scam\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/stolen-iphones-fuel-scary-passcode-scam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 07:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.foxnews.com\">www.foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Your iPhone can feel nearly useless to a thief once you mark it as lost. Apple&#8217;s Activation Lock can help turn a stolen device into a locked brick. That should make phone theft less profitable. Yet thieves have found a nasty workaround.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">According to new research from Infoblox Threat Intel, the cybersecurity research team at Infoblox, criminals are using fake Apple pages, smishing texts and Telegram-based unlocking tools to trick stolen iPhone owners into handing over their passcodes.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Infoblox Threat Intel tracks cybercriminal activity partly by studying DNS, the system that helps devices find websites online. Think of DNS as the internet&#8217;s phone book. By watching patterns in suspicious website names and traffic, researchers can spot fake domains, phishing pages and larger scam networks.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The scary part is how personal the scam can feel. The thief may already have your phone. The message may arrive right after the theft. The fake page may even show what looks like your iPhone moving on a map.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><strong>WHY IPHONE USERS ARE THE NEW PRIME SCAM TARGETS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Cybercriminals are using fake Apple pages and text messages to trick stolen iPhone owners into giving up their passcodes.<\/span> <span>(Kurt CyberGuy Knutsson)<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Researchers found that many thieves care less about the data on the phone and more about turning the device into resale cash. Once they get your passcode, they can remove protections, wipe the device and sell it.<\/p>\n<h3 data-layout-index=\"5\"><strong>Join CyberGuy Live: Lock Down Your Phone in 30 Minutes (This Saturday, June 13, 10 am ET)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul data-layout-index=\"5\">\n<li>Your phone holds your email, passwords, photos, banking apps and personal data. In this free, live online class, Kurt the CyberGuy will walk you step by step through simple phone security fixes you can do in real time. You\u2019ll learn how to improve your privacy settings, spot the latest phone scams, use trusted security tools and walk away with a simple checklist to stay protected. <strong>Register here: <\/strong><strong>CyberGuyLive.com.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-layout-index=\"5\"><strong>How the stolen iPhone passcode&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/stolen-iphones-fuel-scary-passcode-scam\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thieves use fake Apple pages to trick stolen iPhone owners for passcodes https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/stolen-iphones-fuel-scary-passcode-scam Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/man-smartphone-park-bench.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[25,57],"class_list":["post-271115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271117,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271115\/revisions\/271117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}