Last year, Apple launched a new feature for iPhone users who were worried about getting targeted with sophisticated spyware, such as journalists or human rights defenders. Now, researchers say they have found evidence that Apple s security feature called Lockdown Mode .
An Israeli cyber mercenary firm, QuaDream, has been accused of developing spyware that was used to hack the iPhones of political opposition figures, journalists, and an NGO worker, according to two reports by Microsoft and digital rights group Citizen Lab.
In order to address a vulnerability that hackers were actively using to compromise Apple devices, Apple on Monday released a new version of the operating systems for the iPhone and iPad. Apple stated that it “is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited” on the security update page. Apple uses …