According to the two goals of the accused, Apple has sent notifications to several people this week who believes the company believes that the government spyware was targeted.
In the past, Apple has sent a similar notification for the target and victims of the spyware and has instructed them to contact a non -profit that these national cyberratetacks are experts in investigating. Other technology companies such as Google and WhatsApp have also sent these national notifications to their users in recent years.
Until Wednesday, only two people received these notifications from Apple this week seemed to have come forward to publish them.
One is Cirro Pelegrino, an Italian journalist who works for the online news outlet FanpageThe Peligrino Wrote in an article He received an email and a text message from Apple on Tuesday that he was targeted with spyware. According to Pelagrino, the message also said that he was not the only person.
According to the Palegrino article, this message states, “Today’s notification is being sent to 100 countries affected users.”
“Did that really happened? Yes, that’s not a joke.”
The second person who received the Apple Notification is Eva Vallarbroke, a Dutch right-wing activist posted on Wednesday X.
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“Apple has detected a target tenant spyware attack against your iPhone,” Apple said, according to A screenshot shown in a video Posted on ValaringBrok X.
In response to the notification, Vallaringbrook said that it was “trying to intimidate me, obviously trying to silence me.”
No one responded to TechCrunch’s request for the comment for the comment.
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What is known about the spyware campaign is not yet clear, if it is known, related to Apple Notifications. Apple has notified users across the country on two occasions last year that they were targeted by unspecified spyware.
Apple did not immediately respond to any request for the comment.
Pelegrino is the second Italian journalist this year, who was informed as the target of this type of spyware, which is sometimes known as “tenant” spyware, is often developed by companies that sell technology in governments.
In February, WhatsApp Pelagrino’s fanpage colleague Francesco informed Canceloto that the company “interrupted a spyware company’s activities that we believed to have attacked your device.”
In the case of Canceleto, according to WhatsApp, the Spyware created the Paragon Solutions of the Israeli company. Citizens Lab, a digital rights agency that has been investigated for more than a decade, has confirmed that they are investigating these attacks targeting WhatsApp users.
After Canceleto came forward, two more Italian, who work MediterraneanA non -governmental organization that helps immigrants rescue, they also said they were the aim of Paragon.
Paragon is reported to have broken ties with Italian government customer following these publications.