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On August 23, Apple clarified on its website that their threat notifications were designed to inform and assist users who might be targeted by state-sponsored attackers.
Opposition leaders, including TMC's Mahua Moitra, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, AAP's Raghav Chadha and Shiv Sena UBT's Priyanka Chaturvedi received Apple messages, saying "state-sponsored attackers" might be targeting their iPhones.
After a lot of outrage, the tech giant Apple has clarified that it “does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state sponsored attacker…detecting such attacks relies on threat intelligence signals that are often imperfect and incomplete.”
The update patches bugs found in the system software of Apple devices that were reportedly being used by clients of an Israeli company to spy on users.
The threat actor also offers additional services such as a web panel for managing victims, meta mask brute-forcing to steal seed and private keys, a crypto checker, and a dmg installer, after which the logs are shared via Telegram.