New Delhi: Days after suing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group for targeting iPhone users, Apple has reported that the iPhone devices of at least nine US State Department officials were hacked through a sophisticated hacking perpetrated by NSO Group. The tool was hacked, the media reported late on Friday.
For the past several months, the iPhones of US State Department employees were either located in Uganda or working on matters related to the East African country, news agency Reuters quoted sources as saying.
This is the most widely known hack of US officials through a hacking tool created by the NSO Group.
Late last month, Apple sued the Israeli spyware maker and its parent company, intending to stop it from using any of its technology and prevent any harm to iPhone users globally. . The development came weeks after the revelation that the NSO group was spying on heads of state, activists, politicians and journalists in several countries, including India.
“State-sponsored actors such as the NSO group spend millions of dollars on sophisticated surveillance technologies without effective accountability. This needs to change,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, said in a statement.
Earlier in November, United States (US) officials blacklisted the Israeli company NSO on the allegation that the company enabled foreign governments to conduct international repression, a report by AFP news agency said. Is. The US has also put NSO on the trade blacklist. The move comes after the department ruled that the NSO group “engaged in activities that are contrary to the interests of national security or the foreign policy of the United States”.
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