Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware
News Source : TechCrunch
News Summary
- Apple says it is not aware of any successful mercenary spyware attacks against a Lockdown Mode-enabled Apple device.
- Amnesty International and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have documented several successful attacks on iPhone users.
- Apple has sent numerous batches of notifications to users in over 150 countries, alerting them that they may have been hacked with spyware.
- Apple specifically released this security mode to help at-risk customers defend themselves from the threats posed by government spyware made by companies like Intellexa, NSO Group, and Paragon Solutions.
Almost four years after launching a security feature called Lockdown Mode, Apple says it has yet to see a case where someones device was hacked with these additional security protections switched on [+4154 chars]
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