Cybercriminals are focusing on individuals utilizing Apple items as they will probably have extra cash, a security master has cautioned.
Blogger Graham Cluley said that while malware was more basic on Windows, Apple clients proved unable "stand to be languid" about security.
On Monday, he reported a text message scam that tried to trick people into handing over account information.
Apple's support site warns customers not to enter details on spoof sites.
The instant message con artists conveyed cautions to casualties' cell phones, guaranteeing their Apple ID records were going to terminate. The message urged individuals to visit a fake site where they were requested that enter their record data.
"It tried to grab personal information and credit card details with the aim of committing identity theft," said Mr Cluley.
"They purposely exploited individuals' trust in the Apple brand to take data.
"Abstain from tapping on connections in messages since they may take you some place phishy. Rather go to the site specifically and sign in that way."
The spoof website has since been blocked by web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.
Apple's support website says customers "should never enter Apple account information on any non-Apple website".
"When all is said in done, all record related exercises will happen in the iTunes application straightforwardly, not through a web program," it clarifies.
On Tuesday, Mr Cluley reported a second trick masked as a redesign to Adobe Flash, which urged casualties to introduce another adaptation of the product.
He wrote in his blog: "The best guidance for some clients might be to guarantee that you have designed Adobe Flash Player to consequently redesign itself.
Apple's Mac OS X working framework has a shield, empowered naturally, that counteracts individuals introducing programming composed by obscure engineers. Be that as it may, it shows up the assailants could bypass this.
"The fake Flash overhaul assault seems to have utilized a stolen Apple Developer authentication, proposing that some outsider Mac engineers might be being messy about their own particular security and putting whatever is left of us at danger accordingly," Mr Cluley told the BBC.
"In all actuality lawbreakers will go where the cash is.
"Apple items cost more than some of their rivals so it's reasonable that their clients have more discretionary cashflow. That is money which the awful folks might want to have filling their pockets."
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