``Apple cooperated with the US government to spy on Russia,'' the Russian Federal Security Agency claims, ``Apple devices are spyware heaven.''

On June 1, 2023, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) issued a statement claiming that ``American intelligence agencies have installed malware on thousands of iPhones to obtain information from Russian diplomats.'' The FSB has emphasized Apple's active involvement, but Apple has denied the allegations.

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Russia accuses US of hacking thousands of Apple devices to spy on diplomats
https://therecord.media/russia-accusses-us-of-hacking-apple-devices-to-spy-on-diplomats

Operation Triangulation: iOS devices targeted with previously unknown malware | Securelist
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The FSB claims are as follows:

・An American intelligence agency installed malware on thousands of iPhones to obtain information from Russian diplomats.
・Malware was an unknown thing that exploited the vulnerability of the iPhone
・The malware targeted not only Russian citizens, but also Israel, Syria, China, NATO member countries, and the former Soviet bloc.
・As a result of the investigation, it was revealed that Apple cooperates closely with US intelligence agencies, especially the US National Security Agency (NSA).

Also, on the same day as the announcement by the FSB, major Russian security company Kaspersky reported the existence of `` iPhone malware `` Triangulation '' that infects via iMessage. Ivan Kwiatkowski , a security researcher at Kaspersky, tweeted that ``the malware reported by the FSB is related to Triangulation,'' emphasizing that some of the FSB's claims are true.

UPDATE: the two sets of activities are in fact related.

—Ivan Kwiatkowski (@JusticeRage) June 1, 2023

In addition, Kaspersky founder Eugene Kaspersky reported on his blog that Triangulation was also infected with iPhones owned by Kaspersky employees. In addition, Kaspersky said, ``Research tools on Apple devices are monopolized by Apple, and threat detection and analysis (by third parties) is very difficult.Apple is like heaven for spyware.'' I'm here.

An Apple spokesperson said, ``There is no fact that we have installed a backdoor in Apple products in cooperation with the government, and we have no plans to do so in the future,'' denying cooperation with intelligence agencies.