Phishing attacks are on the rise, with these nefarious security threats breaching your accounts, stealing your credit information, or accessing your private files. Scams like these see you simultaneously play the part of an active (yet unwitting) co-conspirator in attempts to hijack your most sensitive data.
Far beyond the simplistic and often easy-to-spot cold-calling techniques of supposed Microsoft Tech support agents or Amazon customer service employees, a new phishing threat has arisen whereby iPhone users are being targeted by the misuse of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in efforts to trick them into handing over complete control of their Apple account.
