Threat notice not attributable to any specific state-backed attacker: Apple

Posted on: 31 Oct, 04:51 PM

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Detecting such attacks relies on threat intelligence signals that are often imperfect and incomplete..

Apple added that it is unable to provide information about what causes the company to issue such threat notifications as that may help state-sponsored attackers to adapt their behaviour to evade detection in the future...

Apple India sent a warning notification Tuesday morning to several iPhone users apprising them that they could be a likely target of a state-sponsored attack trying to "remotely compromise" the device associated with their mailid...

In 2021, both Apple and Google had sent out warning notifications to users globally, including in India, cautioning them that their devices may have been remotely compromised due to an attack made by Pegasus, a spyware manufactured by Israeli company NSO...

Full story at Economic Times |

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