The American smartphones giant Apple, announced to its users the presence of an spy software attack targeting people in 100 countries around the world. The large -scale attack is taken seriously by the manufacturer who sent notifications to targeted persons.
According to Techcrunch, which revealed the information, Apple sent a notifications, including mail to iPhone users who may have been the target of spyware attacks to crack their information and have access to their content.
Two known people revealed to have received this warning message from Apple. They are the Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and the Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek talks about Pegasus type viruses and that it is sure that the target of intimidation will be, in a message posted on the social networks X.
-For his part, Pellegrino shared in an article, an e-mail he would have received from Apple, indicating that the latest spyware notifications were sent to users in 100 countries.
He also adds that users in no less than 150 countries could be involved even if it has not received this emergency notification. “Apple has detected that you are the target of a mercenary espion software attack which is trying to compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple identifier remotely,” said a previous Espion software notification email.
The notification indicating that “this attack probably targets you specifically because of your identity or your activities. Although it is impossible to obtain absolute certainty when detecting such attacks, Apple has great confidence in this warning, please take it seriously. ”
Note that this kind of spy software can give access to the user screen, can record and hear what is said next, read the conversations of encrypted and end -to -end applications, have access to the camera, documents and photos.
