{"id":7398,"date":"2023-11-02T10:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T05:54:39","slug":"india-probing-iphone-hacking-complaints-by-opposition-politicians-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/sciencetech\/india-probing-iphone-hacking-complaints-by-opposition-politicians-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"India probing iPhone hacking complaints by opposition politicians &#8211; minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 2 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s cyber security agency is investigating complaints of mobile phone hacking by senior opposition politicians who reported receiving warning messages from Apple&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/AAPL.O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(AAPL.O)<\/a>, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaishnaw was quoted in the Indian Express newspaper as saying on Thursday that CERT-In, the computer emergency response team based in New Delhi, had started the probe, adding that &#8220;Apple confirmed it has received the notice for investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A political aide to Vaishnaw and two officials in the federal home ministry told Reuters that all the cyber security concerns raised by the politicians were being scrutinised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no immediate comment from Apple about the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government of trying to hack into opposition politicians&#8217; mobile phones after some lawmakers shared screenshots on social media of a notification quoting the iPhone manufacturer as saying: &#8220;Apple believes you are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers who are trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior minister from Modi&#8217;s government also said he had received the same notification on his phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple said it did not attribute the threat notifications to &#8220;any specific state-sponsored attacker&#8221;, adding that &#8220;it&#8217;s possible that some Apple threat notifications may be false alarms, or that some attacks are not detected&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, India was rocked by reports that the government had used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to snoop on scores of journalists, activists and politicians, including Gandhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has declined to reply to questions about whether India or any of its state agencies had purchased Pegasus spyware for surveillance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov 2 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s cyber security agency is investigating complaints of mobile phone hacking by senior opposition politicians who reported receiving warning messages from Apple&nbsp;(AAPL.O), Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. Vaishnaw was quoted in the Indian Express newspaper as saying on Thursday that CERT-In, the computer emergency response team based in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,396,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-india","category-latest","category-sciencetech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}