Two of Apple’s users received spyware attacks. Apple is now notifying all the users too. just stay aware and alert of the spyware attacks. Apple is doing so with all the users and customers who receive cyber attack attacks or spyware attacks.
Apart from notifying Apple, it is also showing the consumers the list of non-profits which will help them in the time of the cyber attack.
On Wednesday, only two of Apple’s users came forward to say that they received a spyware attack notification. And they were attacked also.
One is an Italian journalist, Ciro Pellegrino. This journalist works for a fan page on the Internet. In an article polygonal stated that Apple sent him an email notifying that he was a target of spyware in two days after he was attacked in a spyware cyber attack.
Apparently, Pellegrino was not the only person who was a potential target and under attack. But there were others too as Apple stated in the email. The notification of the awareness of the attack was sent for more customers to almost a hundred plus countries.
The second person who came forward about the attack is Eva vlaardingerbroek. She is Dutch.
An honourable activist. The exact motto of this attack is not clear but it is almost certain that this attack is happening on people who are prominent in the society. It is more likely you’re at target because of who you are and what you do.
Eva thinks that we should take this warning seriously. Because Apple does not just play around it is serious when it comes to its consumers’ security.
The true nature of this spyware is not clear. Just like last year Apple was notified two times of a certain spyware attack. Apple did not specify any kind of software or spyware but it focused on an unspecified spyware attack.
Come to think of it Pellegrino is not the first Italian who was attacked by this spyware
. Before him another Italian journalist was under attack by spyware. These kinds of attacks are used so personal information of people can be used and sometimes sensitive information can be sold to Governments.
Sometimes these kinds of attacks are developed by certain companies who are in charge of research. These companies use the spyware attacks to make their own developing software which then helps in identifying and eliminating the attacks.
Conclusion
Over the last few years there were many times when iPhone users were receiving warnings about the usage of the email or passwords somewhere else in another country. Apple has been warning since always. That is because Apple is always taking its users’ security very seriously.
