Real Apple notifications are being used to drive tech support scams

Real Apple notifications are being used to drive tech support scams

Don’t have an account? Sign up > Try our antivirus with a free, full-featured 14-day trial Protect your team’s devices and data – no IT skills needed Explore award-winning endpoint security for your business Scammers have found a way to abuse legitimate Apple account notification emails to trick targets into calling fake tech support numbers. According to a report from BleepingComputer, scammers create an Apple account and insert a phishing message into the personal information fields, then modify the account so that Apple sends a genuine security alert about the change to the target. BleepingComputer was able to replicate the attack. The attacker creates an Apple ID they control, then stuffs the phishing message into the personal information fields (first name, last name, possibly address), splitting it across fields because they will not fit into just one. To launch the phish, the atta

Source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/04/real-apple-notifications-are-being-used-to-drive-tech-support-scams