

Kaspersky researcher Igor Kuznetsov told Reuters that his company had independently discovered anomalous traffic on its corporate Wi-Fi network around the start of the year. Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky said on Twitter that dozens of his employees' phones were compromised in the operation, which his company described as "an extremely complex, professionally targeted cyberattack" that had targeted workers in "top and middle-management." "We have never worked with any government to insert a backdoor into any Apple product and never will," the firm said in a statement. In a statement, Apple denied the allegation.

The FSB provided no evidence that Apple cooperated with, or had any awareness of, the spying campaign.

agency responsible for cryptographic and communications intelligence and security. The FSB said the plot showed "close cooperation" between Apple and the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. "The FSB has uncovered an intelligence action of the American special services using Apple mobile devices," the FSB said in a statement. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that several thousand Apple Inc (AAPL.O) devices had been infected, including those of domestic Russian subscribers as well as foreign diplomats based in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees' devices were compromised in the operation. MOSCOW, June 1 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software.
