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Germany says lawmakers’ iPhones may have been hacked with spyware
Germany’s federal cybersecurity office, known as the BSI, said ina note over the weekendthat it had become aware that members of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, and other unnamed notable individuals had received warnings from Apple that they may have been targeted by…
Radwan Mortada, a Beirut-based filmmaker, said in a post on X thathe receiveda new threat notification warning that Apple had detected “another attack against your device,” after an earlier spyware attack targeted him in 2021.It’s unclear who is behind this latest round of spyware attacks, or which government may have orchestrated the targeting. Per the notice received by Mortada, Apple said its latest batch of threat notifications went out to users in 99 countries.The episode highlights again the murky business behinda growing number of attacksagainst members of civil society.
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