FSB claims Apple and Big Tech turned officials' phones into wiretaps

The FSB has officially launched a criminal investigation into what it calls a massive international cyber-espionage scheme. According to the agency, foreign intelligence services have been treating the mobile devices of high-ranking Russian officials like open books, using hidden malware to siphon off private conversations, video feeds, and microphone data.

While the specific technical delivery methods remain conveniently vague, the agency insists that Western intelligence agencies have been leveraging the existing infrastructure of major international IT corporations to bypass security. The investigation, currently operating under articles 272 and 273 of the Russian Criminal Code, targets unauthorized access to computer information and the distribution of malicious software across essentially any mobile operating system available.

It seems the era of believing that a locked phone is a private vault has officially expired, at least according to the local security theater. Whether this is a genuine technological wake-up call or just a convenient way to justify a total ban on modern tech for state employees remains the multi-billion dollar question. If the global giants really were this good at espionage, perhaps they would be slightly better at actually fixing their own operating system bugs.

Source: Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation