Centre's Cyber Watchdog CERT-In To Probe iPhone "Hacking" Attempt Charges
Central online safety agency CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) will probe the opposition's claim of iPhone "hacking" attempts, IT Ministry sources have said.
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Central online safety agency CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) will probe the opposition's claim of iPhone "hacking" attempts, IT Ministry sources have said.
India has witnessed an uptick in cyber activities, spurred in part by the Israel-Hamas conflict. These attacks, carried out mostly through DDoS operations and website defacement, have targeted a wide range of entities, from national infrastructure to individual political figures’ digital assets
IPhone hacking: Several opposition MPs and journalists took to X formerly Twitter, saying that they have received a threat notification from Apple warning them of state sponsored attackers targeting their device
Union minister for electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw had said that the government will “get to the bottom” of the threat alerts. | Latest News India
Apple: The probe by Cert-In is likely to focus on the cause behind the attack, the extent to which the devices have been impacted and the nature of data that the spyware was likely after, another government official said.