Russia's FSB said the spy operation had ensnared diplomats from Israel, Syria, China and Nato member states. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW - Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software.said several of its senior employees’ devices were compromised in the operation.
The FSB said the plot showed “close cooperation” between Apple and the National Security Agency, the US agency responsible for cryptographic and communications intelligence and security. The FSB said the American spy operation had ensnared diplomats from Israel, Syria, China and Nato members in the espionage campaign.US snooping?
Russian officials said the plot had been uncovered as part of a joint effort by FSB officers and those of the Federal Guards Service , a powerful agency that runs the Kremlin bodyguard and was also once the KGB’s Ninth Directorate.More On This TopicOfficials in Russia, which Western spies say has constructed a very sophisticated domestic surveillance structure, have long questioned the security of US technology.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has always said he has no smartphone, though the Kremlin has said the former KGB spy does use the Internet from time to time.Kaspersky said it discovered the digital espionage campaign after detecting anomalous traffic in its corporate Wi-Fi network.
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