Cloudmark research company found that nearly a third of all mobile spam is sent through iMessage. Fraudsters especially intensified after the "apple" service is now available on your Mac.
According to research analysts, now 30% of global spam accounts for users iMessage.Author of the report made by the analyst Tom Cloudmark Lendesman who called messenger Apple «paradise" for authors send unsolicited messages. The fact that it is easy for programmers to write code to send spam from your computer Mac, and contingency services to the mobile operating system iOS - a real gift for them.
Cpameram not need to know the mobile phone number in order to send a message - just e-mail address of "victim." Thus, the letter will come directly to all the gadgets with iMessage on the specified e-mail.
It should be noted that Apple is taking steps to protect their customers from such fraud. Thus, the company has reduced the rate of sending bulk messages to the service, but hackers have found a way to get around this limitation the creation of a large number of accounts iMessage.
Earlier on the official Apple website was posted instruction , in which the company described the actions of the owner iPhone and iPad when receiving unsolicited messages in iMessage.The user should go to the menu "Notification Center"> "Messages" and put a check in "Warnings from the contacts." Thus, the user will protect themselves from unwanted messages in iMessage, that is, all those who are not in his address book. This measure, of course, quite radical, but the best out of the situation Apple has not invited.