Phone users are the target of a new, highly deceptive iMessage scam that leverages the trust and ubiquity of iMessage to steal sensitive personal

Cybercriminals have devised a technique to steal personal information by tricking iPhone users into turning off Apple's built-in iMessage phishing protection.

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People who unwittingly follow the instructions in certain malicious text messages end up bypassing Apple's phishing protection.

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.

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.

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

Threat actors target iPhone users with malicious messages to trick them into turning off Apple iMessage’s phishing protection.

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.

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.

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