Apple Warns Users Of iPhone Spyware Attacks—What You Need To Know
So Apple is sending threat notification's out to users. And has been since 2021.
Apple has been sending users warnings of suspected spyware attacks by way of an iPhone hacking notification system for years. The chances are that you didn’t know, especially if you’ve never received one. Here’s another surprise: Apple doesn’t offer to help but directs the victims to a non-profit organization instead. Here’s what you need to know.
How can you check if you're infected? Run iVerify or Am I Secure.
As my colleague Kate O’Flaherty recently reported, always keeping your iPhone “up to date with the latest software and restart your iPhone regularly, as this can disrupt spyware’s access to your device temporarily,” is good advice. As is using an app to run a quick check. One option is iVerify which has been around for the longest time, but I’ve been trying out a newer alternative. The standalone on-premises version of the Am I Secure? app is that is used by government clients to “ensure no device data at all, even if not sensitive or private, leaves government control and that they control all discoveries of spyware, such as which users were hit and when, for political and investigatory reasons,” Colin Caird, the founder of Numbers Station which developed the app, said.
As always folks. Be careful out there.