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Harris-Walz campaign may have been targeted by iPhone hackers, cybersecurity firm says


Apple strongly disagreed with the claim that a series of attacks targeted its users, saying the "report points to a conventional software bug that we identified and fixed in iOS 18.3."

Based on field data from our devices, this report points to a conventional software bug that we identified and fixed in iOS 18.3,” Ivan Krstić, the head of Apple Security Engineering and Architecture, said in an emailed statement. “We identified exceedingly rare crash logs that appeared exclusively on devices belonging to high-risk individuals including government officials, political campaign staff, journalists, and tech executives,” the report says. Last year, Microsoft, Google and several federal agencies said Chinese intelligence had hacked several major telecommunications companies, including AT&T and Verizon, and used that access to specifically spy on both the Trump and Harris campaigns ’ conversations.

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