Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai21h ago

SCOOP: Apple says it's not aware of anyone using Lockdown Mode getting hacked with spyware, on all kinds of devices.

There have already been a couple of documented cases of Lockdown Mode stopping spyware attacks. And there's been one case where an advanced hacking toolkit was designed to bail out if it detected Lockdown Mode on the target device.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/apple-says-no-one-using-lockdown-mode-has-been-hacked-with-spyware/

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware | TechCrunch

The tech giant's claim that it has not seen any successful spyware attacks targeting Apple devices with Lockdown Mode enabled comes amid a leak of hacking tools targeting users running devices with older software.

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@lorenzofb Italian activists hacked by the italian government had Android or didn’t have Lockdown Mode enabled, but even if they did, they would have been hacked anyway, because LM doesn’t generally apply to third-party apps.

It helps a bit in third-party apps in case the exploit uses iOS features like image decoding (LM only allows a handful of image formats) but it’s up to apps to detect LM and implement their own protections. I’m not aware of any app checking for LM status.

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