Apple Threat Notifications

Months after several Opposition leaders claimed that they received messages warning of "state-sponsored" hackers trying to access their iPhones, the tech giant is sending out a "mercenary spyware" alert to its users in 92 countries, including India.

Apple iPhone users in 92 countries have been warned by the company that they might have been targeted using mercenary spyware. The company has not attributed these mercenary spyware attacks to specific threat actors or revealed the geographic locations of users that were impacted. Apple has also updated its support document to detail how these aler...

The government's cybersecurity agency CERT-In has started its investigation into the issue of the Apple threat notification received by several opposition MPs, and a notice has been sent to the company, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday.

After a major controversy erupted between the ruling party and the opposition leaders over the alleged hacking of their phones, Apple officially announced that it does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state-sponsored attacker. The leaders alleged that the Government was behind this attempt to breach their devices.

Apple issued alert messages to at least six Thai activists and researchers who have been critical of the government, warning it believed their iPhone handsets had been targeted by "state-sponsored attackers," according to activists.

Months after several Opposition leaders claimed that they received messages warning of "state-sponsored" hackers trying to access their iPhones, the tech giant is sending out a "mercenary spyware" alert to its users in 92 countries, including India.

Apple iPhone users in 92 countries have been warned by the company that they might have been targeted using mercenary spyware. The company has not attributed these mercenary spyware attacks to specific threat actors or revealed the geographic locations of users that were impacted. Apple has also updated its support document to detail how these aler...

The government's cybersecurity agency CERT-In has started its investigation into the issue of the Apple threat notification received by several opposition MPs, and a notice has been sent to the company, IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday.

After a major controversy erupted between the ruling party and the opposition leaders over the alleged hacking of their phones, Apple officially announced that it does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state-sponsored attacker. The leaders alleged that the Government was behind this attempt to breach their devices.

Apple issued alert messages to at least six Thai activists and researchers who have been critical of the government, warning it believed their iPhone handsets had been targeted by "state-sponsored attackers," according to activists.