Apple sues Israeli company known for hacking and spying software
$Apple(AAPL.US$ on Tuesday filed suit against an Israeli company that it says is known for making and selling software that is used in state-sponsored surveillance and spying on individuals' phones and communications.
Apple filed the suit against NSO Group and its parent company, Q Cyber, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose. In its filing, Apple said NSO's products and services are used to target individual people, "including government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics and even U.S. citizens" for the company's commercial benefit.
"They design, develop, sell, deliver, deploy, operate, and maintain offensive and destructive malware and spyware products and services that have been used to target, attack, and harm Apple users, Apple products, and Apple," said Apple, in its suit. Apple wants a permanent injunction to be issued that would prevent NSO from using Apple software, services, or devices.
In a separate statement, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said the company makes "the most secure consumer hardware on the market." However, Federighi said that companies that are developing state-sponsored spyware have caused Apple to take legal action to prevent more cyber attacks on individuals.
"While these cybersecurity threats only impact a very small number of our customers, we take any attack on our users very seriously," Federighi said. "And we're constantly working to strengthen the security and privacy protections in iOS to keep all of our users safe."
Apple said it would alert any iPhone users that might have been attacked with a form of software called FORCEDENTRY.
According to Apple attackers used the FORCEDENTRY software to create Apple IDs that were then used to send malicious data to a person's iPhone. Apple said this then allowed NSO, or its clients, to install a type of spyware called Pegasus on a person's phone without their knowledge.”
The company said its own servers were neither hacked, nor compromised, during the attacks.
U.S. government officials recently raised the issue of security risks in the matter of proposed European Union trade rules that would require American tech companies to share some trade secrets with their rivals.
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William Paul : Israel is a bigger threat to US citizens’ security than Iran. Everyone knows it but the media is afraid to say it otherwise they’ll get cancelled by the ADL.
fly up high William Paul: Really? What treats are you speaking of? I see it the other way around especially when it comes to Iran who would not only take out Israel but the
USA as well. After all, we are the Infidels aren't we? Them "Death to the Infidels".
Indicator analyst fly up high: Read up on USS Liberty incident and you'll learn precisely what he meant.
Drdrdoky Indicator analyst: That was 50 years ago during the 6 Day War and was an error during all the confusion. They are our only allies in the entire ME.
UANM5SC6Ea Indicator analyst: Read up on USS Cole deliberate not accidental incident and you'll learn precisely what up and away meant.
H3U3lt3Ycd fly up high: Jesus is a Prophet in Islam. All Muslims love and respect him if not you cannot be a Muslim. Jesus is mocked by Jews. Settlers celebrate his torture and murder. Ask Palestinian Christians who the enemy is.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/01/christians-in-jerusalems-old-city-under-threat-from-settlers
7KMNtrPYB1 H3U3lt3Ycd: you got it the other way around. Google the following:
042-Persecution-of-Christians-in-the-Middle-East-3.pdf
LTDrYYZbAO William Paul: They hold the US hostage, feeding them billions..I just don't understand that. They are a very rich and educated country, why is it they are always sponging on the US...Seems like the more they get, the more they want.
Ruuussell : Good and I hope an action is taken against Israel. Israel spies on everyone and everything. They will literally stop at nothing.
Old Capital : I'll bet 10-1 the US govt is a repeat customer for software from NSO Group.
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