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.

For phishing messages from unknown senders, the best course of action is often just to delete the message and move on. By improving your own cyber hygiene and becoming more knowledgeable about phishing attempts, you’ll be able to spot a scam without having to interact with a dangerous message or email at all.

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.

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

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.

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,

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,