Apple filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. The lawsuit seeks to ban NSO Group from further harming individuals by using Apple’s products and services.
Apple’s legal complaint provides new information on NSO Group’s ‘forced entry’, an exploit for a now-patched vulnerability previously used to break into a victim’s Apple device and install the latest version of NSO Group’s spyware product, Pegasus.
Though misused to deliver ‘forced entry’, Apple servers were not hacked or compromised in the attacks.
Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering said, “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.”
Earlier, Facebook sued NSO Group in 2019, accusing it of using the WhatsApp messenger to conduct cyberespionage on journalists, human rights activists and others.
US authorities have blacklisted NSO to restrict exports from American groups over allegations the Israel firm "enabled foreign governments to conduct transnational repression."
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