Hackers are increasingly using a sense of urgency to get around an Apple security measure and trick iMessage users into clicking phishing links, Bleeping Computer reports. Typically, iMessage users can't open links from an unknown sender until they add the sender to their contacts or respond to one of their messages.

Apple's Messages app deactivates links to make phishing more difficult. Fraudsters are therefore using a new tactic – in Germany too.

Cybercriminals are exploiting a trick to turn off Apple iMessage’s built-in phishing protection for a text and trick users into re-enabling disabled phishing links, according to Bleeping Computer. The app automatically disables links in messages received from unknown senders,

Cybercriminals are disabling Apple iMessage's built-in phishing protection to trick iPhone users into re-enabling scam links or messages from unknown senders, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Scammers are apparently sending fake toll tax and delivery issue messages with links that may take users to a malicious website.

Cybercriminals are exploiting a trick to turn off Apple iMessage's built-in phishing protection for a text and trick users into re-enabling disabled phishing links.

Have you received a mail delivery alert on your iPhone asking you to respond with a Y to activate a link? It's a phishing scam. Here's you can handle it easily.

A new social engineering tactic is being used by cybercriminals to trick iPhone users into disabling iMessage's built-in phishing protection,

Macworld The more we use our iPhones to chat, the more smishing (SMS phishing) attacks try to trick us into compromising our accounts. According to research by Bleeping Computer, the latest wave of attacks is simple but includes serious efforts to bypass Apple’s way of protecting users from using bad web links.

Phone users are experiencing a surge in so-called "smishing" attacks that encourage them to disable basic iMessage protections, according to the cybersecurity news site BleepingComputer. Once Apple's scam guardrails are removed,

New iPhone phishing scam bypasses iMessage security by tricking users into enabling malicious links through simple replies.