The war in Ukraine between Russia and the West has increasingly become a spy war. Among the ways Americans 007 attempt to steal sensitive information is also the hacking of Apple smartphones used by Kremlin leaders and foreign diplomats in Moscow. Indeed, Russian counterintelligence discovered an operation by US intelligence agencies to infect thousands of iPhones, including those belonging to foreign diplomats in Moscow, with malware.
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“The FSB, together with the Russian Federal Protection Service, discovered the espionage activity of intelligence services carried out using Apple-branded cell phones,” the FSB said in a statement. According to Russian intelligence, several thousand Apple phones were infected. “In addition to national customers, we detected infections of numbers and foreign customers who used SIM cards of Russian diplomatic missions and embassies,” including NATO countries and former Soviet republics, as well as Israel, Syria and China.
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