What makes things worse is they found a Chinese platform offering the use of their iPhone farms to anyone willing to pay. Lucid is a sophisticated Phishing-as-a-Service (PhAAS) platform operated ...

to attack iPhone and Android phone users. A new PhAAS called Lucid from China provides iPhone farms—banks of devices equipped with rotating temporary Apple IDs—that send over 100,000 scam ...

Apple’s China bet is the real reason that the price of iPhones might be about to spike. Tariffs are just the trigger.