Scammers have upgraded their iPhone scams by asking users to reply to phishing texts in order to reenable malicious links.

New iPhone phishing scam bypasses iMessage security by tricking users into enabling malicious links through simple replies.

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.