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Attack of the iMessage: Floods of Chinese Characters are Spamming iPhones

Written by SecureWorld News Team | Thu | Oct 20, 2016 | 3:00 PM Z

Experts say the spam is due to bad or reused passwords.

Sophos Explains:

@john_munn says he’s been an Android user for years, no problem.

But 10 days into using a new iPhone, and whammo!

He gets a gazillion spam texts rapid-flooding iMessage, all in Chinese....

Two things: 1) he’s far from alone. And 2) it’s not Apple’s fault.

On Wednesday, Mashable reported that one of the publication’s employees saw a message in her iMessage account from a foreign number she didn’t recognize, written in Chinese characters.