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“We have a level of malware on the Mac that we don’t find acceptable,” Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said last year. He meant it....

In April 2022 The New Yorker posted an article titled “How Democracies Spy on their Citizens” detailing how an iPhone 8 Plus phone owned by Jordi Solé, a pro-independence member of the European Parliament, was hacked by an attacker using NSO’s Pegasus spyware. Other similar cases were published in 2021 and 2022 and today, Apple introduced Lockdown Mode coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac Operating Systems to address high-level spyware.

Apple’s Lockdown Mode offers an extreme level of security for users who might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats for being who they are or for what they do.

Apple today detailed two initiatives to help protect users who may be personally targeted by sophisticated digital threats.

As if revelations around surveillance-as-a-service company NSO Group weren’t bad enough, a second Israeli firm has been accused of using the same hack to undermine iPhone security.

The phones of at least nine State Department employees were recently hacked through the use of spyware from Israeli company NSO Group, a report published Friday found. Reuters cited four people “familiar with the matter” in reporting that iPhones of the employees were hacked over the past several months. The individuals targeted were based in Uganda or working on issues involving Uganda.

The phones of at least nine State Department employees were recently hacked through the use of spyware from Israeli company NSO Group, a report published Friday found.

NSO Group made millions from totalitarian governments.

Today, Apple filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users.

Apple has sued Israels NSO group, which it says is behind the controversial spyware called Pegasus.