Apple regularly informs iPhone users if they have fallen victim to espionage attacks. If you receive a corresponding notification, you must react immediately.
Just recently, Apple once again sent threat messages to iPhone users, like TechCrunch reported. The notification went out to users in 92 countries, warning them that they may have fallen victim to a spy attack.
If you ever receive such a notification on your iPhone, you should take immediate action. Because these reports should be taken seriously.
This is what the notification looks like on the iPhone
According to the report by TechCrunch The threat reports do not contain any information about the intensity of the attackers. The US company has also not published the affected regions.
However, an Apple support page on this topic shows that the company has already informed users in more than 150 countries since 2021.
According to TechCrunch, the threat message looks like this: “Apple has determined that you are the target of a spy attack that is attempting to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID -xxx-.”
But this is not a standard notification that Apple sends to all of its users. If you ever receive such a threat message, you can assume that it is aimed specifically at you.
Apple contacts users specifically
Apple sends these notifications several times a year and asks its users to take them seriously. The US company had previously sent the warning in October.
This attack is likely specifically targeting you because of who you are or what you do. Although it is never possible to achieve absolute confidence in detecting such attacks, Apple has great confidence in this warning – please take it seriously.
This notification often ends up on the iPhones of journalists and politicians. After the latest round of warnings, Amnesty International later reported that it had found Israeli manufacturer NSO Group's Pegasus spyware on the iPhones of prominent journalists in India.
Apple itself does not provide any further information about the reasons for the notification. “We are unable to provide any more information about what prompted us to send you this notification,” the threat report statement said. Apple wants to prevent attackers from being able to adapt their behavior in order to better remain undetected in the future.
Apple had previously described the attacks as “state-sponsored”. However, such references have now been replaced by the phrase “mercenary spyware attacks”.
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Source: https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2024/04/19/iphone-benachrichtigung-spionageangriff/
