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Apple has issued a new spyware warning to iPhone users in 110 countries. The news comes after Reddit users reported they had received a \u201chighly concerning\u201d notification on August 13, according to Bleeping Computer.<\/p>\n
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Apple has issued a new spyware warning<\/a> to iPhone users in 110 countries. The news comes after Reddit<\/a> users reported they had received a \u201chighly concerning\u201d notification on August 13, according to Bleeping Computer<\/a>. <\/p>\n The spyware notifications have been sent before, but they may have looked slightly different, leading users to question if they were legitimate.<\/p>\n However, Apple has confirmed that the latest warning is indeed real. <\/p>\n Apple says that as of 2026, it notifies targeted users directly on iPhone and via email sent from Apple Threat Notifications (threat-notifications@email.apple.com). \u201cNotification types may vary based on the user\u2019s device model and software version,\u201d according to the iPhone maker, writing in a support document<\/a>.<\/p>\n About the Spyware Threat Notifications<\/p>\n It is not the first spyware threat notification sent by Apple. The iPhone maker has sent out the alerts<\/a> numerous times, one of which was in December. I first covered the spyware alerts back in 2024, which I reported on Forbes<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n Apple threat notifications are \u201cdesigned to inform and assist users who may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware attacks, likely because of who they are or what they do,\u201d Apple says on its support page. <\/p>\n Mercenary spyware attacks \u201ccost millions of dollars and often have a short shelf life, making them much harder to detect and prevent,\u201d Apple wrote, adding that the vast majority of users will never be targeted by such attacks.<\/p>\n Apple describes how its investigations \u201ccan never achieve absolute certainty,\u201d but Apple threat notifications \u201care high-confidence alerts that a user has been individually targeted by a mercenary spyware attack, and should be taken very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n Since 2021, Apple has sent threat notifications multiple times a year as it has detected these attacks, and says that to date it has notified users in over 150 countries in total. <\/p>\n How iPhone Spyware Attacks Work <\/p>\n