Overview

• iVerify examined nearly 50,000 iPhones and found six belonging to politicians, journalists and AI executives showing signs of remote tampering.
• Researchers identified unusual crash logs and subsequent Apple Threat Notifications that point to exploitation of an iOS feature designed to flag name or photo changes.
• Targets included former members of the Harris-Walz presidential campaign and a European government official, hinting at a sophisticated espionage operation.
• Apple refutes the notion of an active spyware attack, calling the issue a conventional software bug addressed in the iOS 18.3 update.
• iVerify recommends that high-risk users install the latest updates and enable Lockdown Mode to protect against zero-click spyware intrusions.