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Why Apple sends spyware victims to this nonprofit security lab
Cybersecurity experts, who work with human rights defenders and journalists, agree that Apple is doing the right thing by sending notifications to victims of mercenary spyware — and at the same time refusing to forensically analyze the devices.
Before the elections, the cybersecurity team of U.S. vice president and then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris reached out to Apple asking for help, according to Forbes, after a tool that’s designed to detect spyware on iPhones flagged anomalies on two devices belonging to campaign staffers. Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, who has been investigating surveillance on the internet for more than a decade, said that Apple could still do more to combat spyware. “Our security teams are constantly working to track mercenary spyware attackers, and we send threat notifications to inform and assist users who we believe were individually targeted.”
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