01.06.2023 The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Federal Security Service of Russia, uncovered an intelligence operation of the American special services conducted using Apple mobile devices (USA).
In the course of ensuring the security of the Russian telecommunications infrastructure, anomalies were identified that are characteristic only for users of Apple mobile phones and are caused by the operation of previously unknown malicious software (HPE) that uses software vulnerabilities provided by the manufacturer.
It is established that several thousand telephone sets of this brand were infected. At the same time, in addition to domestic subscribers, facts of infection of foreign numbers and subscribers using sim cards registered at diplomatic missions and embassies in Russia, including the countries of the NATO bloc and the post-Soviet space, as well as Israel, the SAR and the PRC, were revealed.
Thus, the information received by the Russian special services indicates the close cooperation of the American company Apple with the national intelligence community, in particular the US NSA, and confirms that the declared privacy policy for personal data of users of Apple devices does not correspond to reality.
The company provides US intelligence agencies with a wide range of opportunities to monitor both any individuals of interest to the White House, including their partners in anti-Russian activities, and their own citizens.
Absolutely not surprising and I guarantee you Google offers the exact same type of cooperation. If you want to be safe your only choices are Chinese brands running Chinese OS’s.
I saw it suggested elsewhere that part of those targeted may have been Kaspersky employees and they may have notified them initially to begin investigating. US intelligence continues to be big mad at them.
Oh for sure I mean the Google founders crow about their collaboration with military intelligence lol