An optional iOS, iPadOS, and macOS setting that restricts device features to shrink the attack surface against sophisticated spyware.
Apple's latest mercenary spyware notifications went to users in 110 countries. The response checklist is per-person, and a standard MDM baseline covers almost none of it.
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Apple told TechCrunch it warned selected users across 110 countries on Thursday. For any org with journalists, diplomats or executives on iOS, the hardened profile is no longer an edge case.
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Access Now says helpline requests ran 30% to 40% above the usual post-notification surge, a record. Among the recipients: a Ukrainian soldier who assumed the alert was a scam.
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SlowMist says its evidence for the iPhone Safari attack on crypto wallet keys covers iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2 and that it has confirmed no theft victim. The firm calls this week's iOS 13 to 26.5 warnings preliminary and still tells iPhone users to install security updates.
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At least three Turkish cabinet ministers turned up in Apple's latest mercenary spyware notification batch. Ankara's remediation ran ahead of any identification of the tool, and it may have to stay that way.
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Thursday's round of Apple threat notifications reached targets in 110 countries, and the delivery change is the lesson: an alert sent to an inbox is one you have to hope someone opens.
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