Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers
News Source : TechCrunch
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- Miaan Group, a digital rights organization that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with several Iranians who received the notifications in the last year.
- “I believe there have been three waves of attacks, and we have only seen the tip of the iceberg,” said Amir Rashidi, Miaan Group’s director of digital rights and security.
- Apple did not respond to a request for comment on the notifications sent to Iranians.
Apple notified more than a dozen Iranians in recent months that their iPhones had been targeted with government spyware, according to security researchers.Miian Group, a digital rights organization [+3297 chars]
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