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

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

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.

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.

With people increasingly using their phone to pay bills, shop, book services and conduct business, Smishing (SMS phishing) has become a popular way for scammers to target their victims. To protect users, Apple automatically disables links in iMessages sent from unknown senders.

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.