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.

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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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.

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