#Apple computer spy software full#

вЂњThis is Apple saying: If you do this, if you weaponize our software against innocent users, researchers, dissidents, activists or journalists, Apple will give you no quarter,вЂќ Ivan Krstic, head of Apple security engineering and architecture, said in an interview on Monday. Since NSOвЂ™s founding in 2010, its executives have said they sell spyware to governments only for lawful interception, but a series of revelations by journalists and private researchers have shown the extent to which governments have deployed NSOвЂ™s Pegasus spyware against journalists, activists and dissidents.ДЄpple executives described the lawsuit as a warning shot to NSO and other spyware makers. Apple said it would donate the proceeds from those damages to organizations that exposed spyware.

#Apple computer spy software full#

Apple also wants to permanently prevent NSO from using any Apple software, services or devices, a move that could render the companyвЂ™s Pegasus spyware product worthless, given that its core business is to give government clients full access to a targetвЂ™s iPhone or Android smartphone.ДЄpple is also asking for unspecified damages for the time and cost to deal with what the company argues is NSOвЂ™s abuse of its products. The lawsuit is the second of its kind - Facebook sued NSO in 2019 for targeting its WhatsApp users - and another consequential move by a private company to curb invasive spyware by governments and the companies that provide their spy tools.ДЄpple, for the first time, seeks to hold NSO accountable for what it says was the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. SAN FRANCISCO - Apple sued the NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, in federal court on Tuesday, another setback for the beleaguered firm and the unregulated spyware industry.