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Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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It looks like the message encourages users to update "to the latest software version, iOS 16.6." I wonder if their message is different to users on devices which no longer can be updated beyond iOS 15, like iPhone 7, 7 Plus, SE and so on.

why do you think devices out of support date got any message at all?

to encourage them to upgrade?

Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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I’d think this extends to all countries actually, and find it curious that only 92 are being notified.

Could this be illegal in some countries to notify users like this? I could see how revealing to some one they were the subject of a gov't targeting would be illegal in some countries.

Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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you changed my mind successfully thank you but what about dumb phones from late 2000s like my Samsung Alias 2? what kind of sick bastard would make zero days for this

for those you don't need 0days. you can use 360*20days just fine. it's like there was any firmware update for them ever.

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Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

#144

The message from Apple is so vague that it's useless. It just says to be afraid. There's no advice on what action to take.

That's not true, in the message they refer you to a web page with more details: About Apple threat notifications and protecting against mercenary spyware -https://support.apple.com/en-in/102174

Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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Just out of curiosity why would you have imessage turned off?

*tinfoil hat on imessage and rcs (and arguably mms, although that started as cost cutting) are backdoors for the legal protections on mining telephony provider metadata for marketing. with those two "opt in" (lol) techs, all safeguards are off.

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Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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The message from Apple is so vague that it's useless. It just says to be afraid. There's no advice on what action to take.

The article omitted it, but the message says to update iOS to the latest software and enable its lockdown mode.

Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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Android is more secure, especially in recent history. You can even see it in 0 day bounties. Don't pay attention to Samsung though, that company is probably the Apple equivalent of android.

I don’t see how the bounties back this up?

Supply and demand.

Re: Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

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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.

Just out of curiosity why would you have imessage turned off?

I'm in Europe, I haven't encountered anyone in my life who has used iMessage (everyone uses WhatsApp, now also Telegram/Signal), so I don't really have a use for it, when I wanted to try the weird AR emoji / heartbeat reaction message things with my partner we noticed we both had iMessage turned off, I guess it's like a setting that maybe we skipped during the phone setup? Not sure if it's on by default for some people.
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