Mint Explainer: Why did Apple send threat notifications to prominent Indians?
These notifications are to do with cyberattacks targeted at specific individuals, which are far less common and more dangerous than mass attacks
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These notifications are to do with cyberattacks targeted at specific individuals, which are far less common and more dangerous than mass attacks
Cybersecurity experts believe that the state-sponsored attacker alert sent to some popular politicians should be investigated and users should be made aware of the current status of the threat
Apart from politicians, Observer Researcher Foundation (ORF) president Samir Saran and two journalists too said that they had received similar notifications from Apple
Union minister for communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw cited Apple's latest statement on the matter and said that an investigation by CERT-In has been ordered
On Tuesday, several users, including several political leaders from different opposition parties shared on X (formerly Twitter) screenshots of a notification from Apple which said that they could have been likely victims of a state-sponsored attack on their smartphones.