Re: Apple warns iPhone users in half the world via email of new iOS cyberattacks

On 12/04/2024 at 23:48, Dennis the Menace wrote:

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:33:51 +0100, Wilf wrote:
 

On 12/04/2024 at 06:37, J?rg Lorenz wrote:

Am 11.04.24 um 23:49 schrieb prescient observer:

Apple warns iPhone users by email of cyberattack.
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What to do if you get Apple's new spyware warning?
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/apple-warns-iphone-users-in-92-countries-of-extremely-advanced-cyberattack-what-to-do-if-you-get-spyware-warning-101712852573673.html
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The email from Apple said jackers have remotely compromised the
iPhone associated with Apple users' Apple ID in at least 92
countries (of the two hundred countries in the world).
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Apple has high confidence in this warning where Apple begs its
customers in half the world to please take these many Apple
focused cyberattacks very seriously.
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Apple has warned people in at least 150 of the 200 countries in
the world that since 2021 their highly insecure Apple devices
have often successfully been hit by multiple cyber attacks.

 

I have read this on cnet.com and theregister, though.

 

Surely Arlen wrote all those articles...

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Well I guess that not all iPhone issues are only in the mind of whoever
this "Arlen" is.

 https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/11/apple-warns-of-a-mercenary-spyware-attack-on-iphones
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/11/apple-warns-users-mercenary-spyware-attacks/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/apple-warning-mercenary-spyware-attacks/
https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphones/apple-sends-out-iphone-mercenary-spyware-warnings-to-92-countries-what-you-need-to-know
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/04/11/apple-warns-users-in-92-countries-they-may-have-been-targeted-by-mercenary-spyware-attacks/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2024/04/12/apple-issues-new-spyware-attack-warning-to-iphone-users/
https://www.techspot.com/news/102588-apple-warns-users-92-countries-mercenary-spyware-attacks.html
https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-warns-users-in-92-countries-about-mercenary-spyware-threat
https://mashable.com/article/apple-spyware-notification-92-countries
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-mercenary-spyware-attacks-target-iphone-users-in-92-countries/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-warns-users-in-92-countries-about-mercenary-spyware-threat
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/apple-warns-iphone-users-of-a-dangerous-new-malware-attack-found-in-92-countries/ar-BB1ls5LH
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/apple-iphone-hack-spyware-attack-b2527795.html
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/apple-warns-iphone-users-in-92-countries-of-extremely-advanced-cyberattack-what-to-do-if-you-get-spyware-warning/ar-BB1lt8vo
https://www.gadgets360.com/mobiles/news/apple-iphone-mercenary-spyware-attack-warning-countries-5417897
https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/mercenary-spyware-attack
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-spyware-attack-alert-2024-4?op=1
https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_warns_users_in_over_90_countries_on_mercenary_spyware_attacks-news-62396.php

Thank you.  I have no idea who this oft-quoted bete noire "Arlen" is, but unless he is very influential, I don't imagine all of those publications could have been taken in by just that one person.
Reminds me of the book 1984, where every ill in the society was deliberately ascribed to the invented arch enemy Goldstein.
--
Wilf