{"id":1403,"date":"2025-01-18T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/social-engineering-to-disable-imessage-protections-html\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T05:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T05:00:37","slug":"social-engineering-to-disable-imessage-protections-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/social-engineering-to-disable-imessage-protections-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They were standard messages about delayed packages or somesuch, with the goal of getting me to click on a link and entering some personal information into a website. But because they came from unknown phone numbers, the links did not work. So\u2014this is the new bit\u2014the messages said something like: \u201cPlease reply Y, then exit the text message, reopen the text message activation link, or copy the link to Safari browser to open it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I saw it once, and now I am seeing it again and again. Everyone has now adopted this new trick.<\/p>\n<p>One article claims that this trick has been popular since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/phishing-texts-trick-apple-imessage-users-into-disabling-protection\/\">last summer<\/a>. I don\u2019t know; I would have expected to have seen it before last weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/01\/social-engineering-to-disable-imessage-protections.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem. A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They were standard messages about delayed packages or somesuch, with the goal of getting me to click on a link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,124,599,388,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-phishing","category-sms","category-social-engineering","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}