(Moscow Composite Electric) The Russian Federal Security Agency (FSB) exposed the United States' espionage to Russia, accusing the US government of using advanced monitoring software to invade thousands of Apple mobile phones to monitor Russian Apple mobile phone users and diplomatic officials stationed in RussiaEssence
FSB on Thursday (June 1) issued a statement saying: "We have noticed the information operations of the American special service department using Apple mobile devices.""Close cooperation", but did not provide any evidence.
NSA is an American institution responsible for password, communication intelligence and security, and they refuse to comment on this.
Apple has denied the accusation of Russia, emphasizing that the company "has never cooperated with any government to implant the backdoor program in any Apple product." It also said that Apple never does such a thing.
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, Apple stopped selling products in Russia, but the Russian people could still buy iPhone through parallel imports.
Russian Net Security Company: Dozens of middle and senior employees have been abnormal in wireless network traffic at the beginning of the year
In addition, Kaspersky Lab, the president of Kaspersky Lab, a network security company headquartered in Moscow, said on Twitter that Apple mobile phones from dozens of company employees are "extremely complicated, targeted at"Sexual professional network attack" was destroyed, and the attack target was the company's senior and middle management personnel.
Kaspersky said that the net attack discovered by the company dates back to 2019, until now, the Internet attack is still ongoing.He also said that although the company's employees were attacked by the Internet, "but we are very confident that Kaspersky Lab is not the main goal of this network."
Kakaski Laboratory Researcher Kuznetsov told Reuters that they discovered that the company's wireless network had abnormal traffic at the beginning of this year.He said the company not noticed the survey results to Russia's computers in an emergency response team until Thursday morning.
The 2022 network power index report published by Harvard Belffer Middle Center states that the intention and ability of the United States are the world's top network power, followed by China, Russia, the United Kingdom and Australia.
The Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs both pointed out the seriousness of the matter.The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement stating that the hidden data collection was carried out by software vulnerabilities in mobile phones made in the United States. It also said that the US intelligence department has been using information technology companies for decades to collect them without knowing many Internet users.Large amounts of data.
Russian officials have long questioned the security of American technology for a long time.Russian media reported that because of worrying that Apple mobile phones were easily invaded by Western intelligence agencies, the Kremlin had asked officials to participate in the preparation of Russia's 2024 presidential election to stop using Apple mobile phones.