American intelligence agencies used the iPhone for spying in Russia

The FSB of Russia announced that it discovered and stopped the intelligence action of the American special services, which used the company’s mobile phones Apple to spy on persons of interest in Russia and abroad.

“In the course of ensuring the security of the Russian telecommunications infrastructure, anomalies were identified that are typical only for users of Apple mobile phones and are caused by the operation of previously unknown malicious software (VPO) that uses software vulnerabilities provided by the manufacturer,” – says in a departmental press release.

The FSB claims that several thousand telephone sets of this brand were infected. At the same time, in addition to domestic subscribers, facts of infection of foreign numbers and subscribers using SIM cards registered with diplomatic missions and embassies in Russia, including the countries of the NATO bloc and the post-Soviet space, as well as Israel, SAR and China, were revealed.

Russian intelligence agencies believe that this proves the close cooperation of the American company Apple with the US national intelligence community and refutes the company’s claims about protecting the privacy of personal data of users of Apple devices.

“The company provides the American intelligence services with a wide range of opportunities to control both any persons of interest to the White House, including their partners in anti-Russian activities, and their own citizens,” the intelligence service concluded.