Good way to get Pegasus devs to blink, but nothing more.
Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
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#12Pegasus and NSO.
(Edit: of course I'm flagged for this. Surprise surprise)
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#13If someone is interested how the message actually looks like, a user on reddit posted it and a previous version from 2023 (although it doesn't include everything): https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1c10jai/i_have_rece...
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#14Pegasus and NSO. (Edit: of course I'm flagged for this. Surprise surprise)
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#15Note that "mercenary spyware" is the politically correct term Apple chose for "state-sponsored attacker" because Modi complained that Apple was exposing them for using illegal NSO Group spyware.
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#16There’s a reddit thread by somebody who got one of these: https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1c10jai/i_have_rece... The interesting thing IMO is they claim to just be some random college student. Which seems believable because if they were a real secret squirrel I guess they wouldn’t ask reddit about it, haha. I wonder if the hackers are targeting people based on phone numbers or something. (I could imagine a c…
That person already got targeted last summer. I doubt they are as uninteresting as they believe/claim to be.
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#17I suppose this is an alternative to security... Real 'Scroll to the bottom of the terms and click accept" vibes..
Is there any company as big as Apple with so many major security issues?
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#18If I got a message that said: “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID -xxx-,” it wrote in the warning to affected customers." I would assume it's fake, part of some phishing scam. How can we know something like this is real? I'd be even more likely to think it's fake if it looks different than all the othe…
As long as it doesn't have any links to click or try to force you to login to something, it just sounds like information to me.
If my bank sent me something about Credit Card fraud I would be very skeptical if it had a big "CLICK HERE TO LOGIN" type of thing.
But if it was just info, and maybe ended with "Contact your local branch to learn more", but no links, no phone numbers, etc. I would be less skeptical.
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#19Good way to get Pegasus devs to blink, but nothing more.
Maybe my thinking is a bit naive, but I would assume that the message signals that Apple found a new way to identify (and therefore maybe neutralize) Pegasus which is probably at least a medium annoyance to them.
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#20If I got a message that said: “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID -xxx-,” it wrote in the warning to affected customers." I would assume it's fake, part of some phishing scam. How can we know something like this is real? I'd be even more likely to think it's fake if it looks different than all the othe…
But if the phishing scam manages to display such a message in a different way on your phone, you can’t trust the phone anymore as it has likely been hacked.
On the Apple Support page here:
https://support.apple.com/en-in/102174
In the screenshot it says the threat notification was sent "via email and iMessage", so it would not be displayed in any different way on your phone, which I also find surprising. I definitely wouldn't expect to receive something like this as an Email, and I have turned off iMessage.