Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

Apple notified more than a dozen Iranians in recent months that their iPhones had been targeted with government spyware, according to security researchers.

Miian Group, a digital rights organization that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with several Iranians who received the notifications in the last year. 

Bloomberg first wrote about these spyware notifications.

Miaan Group published a report on Tuesday on the state of cybersecurity of civil society in Iran, which…