Apple has identified new ‘Spyware’ attacks that affect iPhone users in a hundred countries, which has sent notifications in which it is alerted to the existence of a ‘software’ mercenary software in its devices and the risk that this implies. Since 2021, the firm sends threat notifications to brand terminals several times a year as it detects mercenary attacks and, to date, has sighted users in more than 150 countries in total.
In this context, during the last 2024, the technological one identified two waves of this type of ‘spy software, in which notifications were sent to iphone users in 92 countries on one occasion and in 98 countries in the second wave, in which they were warned of being at risk. Now, Apple has once again identified ‘Spyware’ attacks on iPhone devices, in this case, affecting users of a total of 100 countries, as shared by the affected journalist, Ciro Pellegrino, and has collected TechCrunch. “Apple has detected a mercenary ‘spyware’ attack against your iPhone,” the technological one has detailed in its warning notification, while specified that this time it has been sent “to the users affected in 100 countries.”
This has also shared the Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek in an X (old twitter) publication, where he has indicated that, in the notification, those of Cupertino indicate that the attack is likely to be addressed to the user in question for who he is or what he does. “Although it is never possible to have absolute certainty when detecting this type of attacks, Apple fully trusts this warning,” the company has transferred.
In addition, it must be taken into account that the attacks of ‘mercenary spyware “are exceptionally rare and much more sophisticated than typical activities of cybercrime or’ malware ‘for consumers.”