Apple Investigating India’s Security Alerts: Get the Scoop Now!

US tech giant Apple is sending a team of technical and cyber security experts to investigate the recent issue of Indian politicians receiving threat notifications from their devices.

According to reports, the team is collaborating with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to investigate the matter further.

In October, several opposition MPs, including Priyanka Chaturvedi, Mahua Moitra, Pawan Khera, Shashi Tharoor, Raghav Chadha, Sitaram Yechury and Akhilesh Yadav, said they had received notifications from Apple that their devices were targeted by state-sponsored hackers.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw expressed “concern” over the hoax allegations by opposition leaders, saying an inquiry has been ordered and asked tech giant Apple to join the probe with true and accurate information about “alleged state-sponsored attacks”.

Apple clarified that it does not link these notifications to any specific state-sponsored attacker and acknowledged the possibility of false alarms. The company highlighted the sophistication of state-sponsored attackers and the challenges of detecting such attacks with imperfect threat intelligence signals.

“State-sponsored attackers are well-funded and sophisticated, and their attacks evolve over time. Detection of such attacks relies on threat intelligence signals, which are often incomplete and incomplete. It is possible that some threat notifications from Apple may be false alarms or some attacks may not be detected. We cannot provide information about what prompts us to issue threat alerts because it may help state-sponsored attackers adapt their behavior to avoid detection,” Apple said.

Meanwhile, Google and Apple continue to express concern over recent laws forcing them to allow people to download apps to Android and iOS devices. But most of you already know that Android has always allowed apps to be installed from other app stores, which doesn’t sit well with Apple, and Tim Cook has repeatedly talked about the reasons why.

Now the company is being forced to allow sideloading of apps, which is coming in early 2024, and Apple’s chief security officer is the latest Apple executive to speak openly about the issue and what the company fears when people get the choice to install apps from other platforms. .