I decided to go through twitter once again, and found this. This is something we should at least be aware of.
You may remember that back in 2014, Australian iPhone owners were finding that their devices were being remotely locked and then essentially held at ransom; devices were threatened with remote wiping unless the owner coughed up a ransom. Unfortunately we may be in the midst of a copycat spate of almost identical incidents right now once again, though this time around the targeted users are located mostly in the United States and the Europe.
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