Apple has denied Russia's claim of plotting with a US intelligence agency to hack several iPhones, including devices belonging to Russian nationals and foreign diplomats based in Russia. Russian agency FSB had earlier alleged that spying operation affected diplomats from Israel, Syria, China and NATO countries.
According to the FSB, Apple created backdoors into the encrypted operating system of the iPhone so that the American National Security Agency (NSA) could deploy malware to infect thousands of Russian phones.
The FSB said the plot showed "close cooperation" between Apple and the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. agency responsible for cryptographic and communications intelligence and security. The FSB provided no evidence that Apple cooperated with, or had any awareness of, the spying campaign.
Apple in a statement said, "We have never worked with any government to insert a backdoor into any Apple product and never will."
