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Apple suing 'hacker-for-hire' firm NSO that Canadian cyber watchdog Citizen Lab warned them about

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Tech giant Apple announced Tuesday it is suing Israel’s NSO Group, seeking to block the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company from breaking into Apple’s products, such as the iPhone.

Apple said in a complaint filed in federal court in California that NSO Group employees are “amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.”

Apple said NSO Group’s spyware, called Pegasus, had been used to attack a small number of Apple customers worldwide.

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“State-sponsored actors like the NSO Group spend millions of dollars on sophisticated surveillance technologies without effective accountability. That needs to

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-nso-spyware-1.6259778?cmp=rss.

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