Apple Sues NSO Group Over iPhone Pegasus Spyware

There is a lot of malware out there targeting mobile devices, but it seems that there is one particular type of malware that Apple isn’t too happy with and that comes in the form of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware that has been used by governments to spy on certain groups of people.

This included activists, journalists, and critics of governments that have been found to routinely suppress political dissent. In fact, Apple has recently announced that they will be suing the NSO Group hoping to make them be held accountable for creating spyware that can be used to spy on users of its products, like the iPhone.

They are also looking to ban the company from using any of Apple’s products for future research purposes. According to Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, “State-sponsored actors like the NSO Group spend millions of dollars on sophisticated surveillance technologies without effective accountability. That needs to change.”

He adds, “Apple devices are the most secure consumer hardware on the market — but private companies developing state-sponsored spyware have become even more dangerous. While these cybersecurity threats only impact a very small number of our customers, we take any attack on our users very seriously, and we’re constantly working to strengthen the security and privacy protections in iOS to keep all our users safe.”

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, General
Tags: Hack, Legal, Privacy, Security