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

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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.

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,