Internet Freedom Foundation's Policy Director Prateek Waghre explains how Apple's threat notifications—received by opposition MPs and journalists—work, and why a false alarm theory may be weak
Apple says that unlike regular cybercrime, state-sponsored attacks involve “exceptional resources to target a small number of specific individuals and their devices.
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India’s CERT-In (Computer Emergency Response Team) has reportedly begun its probe into Apple’s threat notifications, received by several political opposition leaders, journalists and think tank leaders.
Some prominent names of people who have received the threat notification, which warns that they may be targets of a ‘state-sponsored attack’ on their Apple devices, include opposition politicians Shashi Tharoor, Mahua Moitra, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Akhilesh Yadav, among others.
Apple says that unlike regular cybercrime, state-sponsored attacks involve “exceptional resources to target a small number of specific individuals and their devices. Such attacks are highly complex, cost millions of dollars to develop, and have a short shelf life”.
Internet Freedom Foundation’s Policy Director Prateek Waghre tells us why this should concern all of us.