Security News > 2023 > November > Indian politicians say Apple warned them of state-sponsored attacks

Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors.

Mahua's post therefore accuses India's government of being the state actor Apple believe has attacked her iPhone.

At the time, India's tech minister Ashwini Vaishnaw did not deny that India had acquired or used Pegasus, and pointed out that not all phone numbers listed by NSO were attacked.

There is no evidence that India's government attacked its own.

Facebook, the Post reported, even found India's Army ran a network of inauthentic accounts, but the social network didn't act for fear of earning the displeasure of India's government.

India's relations with neighbours such as Pakistan and China are frosty, meaning both could conceivably be behind a state-sponsored attack.

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