Russia claims, without evidence, that several thousand iPhones in the country had been hacked in a U.S. government espionage campaign. Apple responded: “We have never worked with any government to insert a backdoor into any Apple product and never will.”
Russia’s Federal Security Service said Monday that several thousand iPhones in the country had been hacked in a recently discovered espionage campaign that it attributed to the U.S. government, without providing evidence.
Apple denied that charge, with a spokesperson proclaiming: “We have never worked with any government to insert a backdoor into any Apple product and never will.”The FSB said the hacked diplomats came from countries including China and Israel, whose foreign ministries did not respond to requests for comment.
Kaspersky said none of the impacted devices were running an operating system more recent than iOS 15.7, which was superseded in September 2022, and none of them were running in Lockdown Mode, an optional setting that reduces the number of ways that iPhones can be attacked, including by limiting the functionality of iMessage.A high-end government spying operation would more typically take advantage of an unpublicized flaw, known as a zero-day, that works even against fully up-to-date software.
The security firm, which often works with Russian authorities, did publish a list of obscure websites that had been used to communicate with the infected phones, as well as technical indicators of compromise that users could use to check their own devices.An earlier version of this article gave an incorrrect date for when iOS 15.7 had been superseded. It was September 2022. The article has been corrected.
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