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Title    Apple Sues NSO Group for Providing Software to Hack iPhones
Date    Wednesday November 24 2021, @06:05PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the is-it-enforceable-outside-the-USA? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/11/24/1213251

fliptop writes:

Apple sues company known for hacking iPhones on behalf of governments

Apple on Tuesday sued NSO Group, an Israeli firm that sells software to government agencies and law enforcement that enables them to hack iPhones and read the data on them, including messages and other communications:

Earlier this year, Amnesty International said it discovered recent-model iPhones belonging to journalists and human rights lawyers that had been infected with NSO Group malware called Pegasus.

Apple is seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using Apple software, services, or devices. It's also seeking damages over $75,000.

[...] NSO Group software permits "attacks, including from sovereign governments that pay hundreds of millions of dollars to target and attack a tiny fraction of users with information of particular interest to NSO's customers," Apple said in the lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California, saying that it is not "ordinary consumer malware."

Also at The Guardian.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "fliptop" - https://soylentnews.org/~fliptop/
  2. "Apple sues company known for hacking iPhones on behalf of governments" - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/23/apple-sues-nso-group-company-known-for-hacking-iphones-on-behalf-of-governments.html
  3. "sued" - https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-group-to-curb-the-abuse-of-state-sponsored-spyware/
  4. "said" - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/apple-iphones-can-be-hacked-even-if-the-user-never-clicks-a-link-amnesty-international-says.html
  5. "The Guardian" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/23/apple-sues-israeli-cyber-firm-nso-group
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=52563

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