Fascinating - iMessage phishing now includes specific instructions to get around iOS Lockdown Mode restrictions.

The replies about how people "should" notice the funky URL are distressing. Why should they?

If you expect people to become experts on esoteric naming conventions in order to use technology safely and securely, you're the problem, not them.

@mattblaze Lots of corporate O365 subscribers are signing up for MicroSoft "safelinks", which makes it pretty much impossible for normal people to have any idea where a plaintext message URL is going.
@dan131riley @mattblaze
"The link was safe!"
"How do you know that?"
"It looked like the same gibberish it always is!"