Apple warned customers last week that according to the French National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR), their equipment was targeted in a new range of spyware attacks.
Cert-FR is operated by the National Cyber Security Agency ANSSI, and is responsible for preventing and reducing cyber security-related events affecting public and important organizations.
According to a Thursday advisor, the CERT-FR Apple knows at least four examples of the danger, which warns the company’s users about the fare -ware attacks that have been since the beginning of the year.
These alerts were sent to phone numbers and email addresses connected to users’ Apple accounts and email addresses on 5 March, 29 April, 25 June and last week, last week. According to Apple, these warnings are also displayed at the top of the page, after the user signed into their account into account.
“Information reports highly sophisticated attacks, most of which employ zero-day weaknesses or do not require any user interaction,” Cyber security agency said,
“These complex attacks target individuals due to their position or work: journalists, lawyers, activists, politicians, senior officials, members of management committees in strategic fields etc.
“Achieving a notification means that at least one tool attached to the ICLUD account has been targeted and potentially compromised.”
While CERT-FR did not share more information about what these alerts inspired, Last month, Apple issued emergency updates to patch a zero-day defect (CVE-2025-43300), which was a “CHVE-clicks (cve-2025-55177), which the company had a highly decorated man. Was described in
At the time, in a danger notification sent to potentially affected persons, WhatsApp urged them to reset their equipment to factory settings and keep their equipment’s operating systems and software up -to -date.
Apple too gives advice To enable users who were targeted by mercury spyware attacks Lockdown mode And request rapid response through emergency safety aid Use Digital Safety Helpline now,
“Since 2021, we have sent Apple Danger notifications several times a year because we have discovered these attacks, and till date we have informed users in more than 150 countries,” says Apple. “Apple does not credits attacks or resulting danger notifications for any specific attackers or geographical regions.”
An Apple spokesperson today did not immediately provide comments on contact by Bleepingcomputer.
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