Apple Corps has filed a lawsuit against Israeli spy agency NSO and its parent company for targeting iphone users with spyware.

NSO's Pegasus software can infiltrate iphone and Android devices. The Pegasus software operator was accused of extracting text messages, pictures, and emails from the apple device. On the added note, it can also operate the camera and mic and record calls on the apple devices.


The NSO says the software was created to target criminals and extremists.


But it is important to note that social activists, politicians and journalists have been accused of spying on Pegasus software.


The NSO panel says the Pegasus software is only available to the country's military, law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies, which have a historically good human rights background.





 

Apple has stated in the lawsuit that the NSO panel will impose a permanent ban on the use of any apple software, apple service or apple devices to prevent further harm to apple users.


Apple also claims that the NSO team created more than 100 fake apple IDs to attack apple users.


Apple's servers were not hacked during the NSO attack, but the NSO team said apple had misused and diverted its servers to attack users.


To top it all off, apple has said it will donate the proceeds of the lawsuit, including $ 10 million to cyber-surveillance research teams, including the Citizen Lab at the university of Toronto, which first discovered the Pegasus attack.

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