‘Apple will cooperate in probe’: IT Secretary as India launches probe in threat notification row

Computer Emergency Response Team — India’s nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents— has started the probe. Krishnan was speaking on the sidelines of an event related to the Meity-NSF research collaboration Thursday India has launched a probe into the contentious Apple threat notification issue, IT Secretary S Krishnan said Thursday, adding that Apple would cooperate in the investigation. A major controversy rocked India earlier this week after several Opposition leaders received an alert from Apple about some “state- KC Venugopal, Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera, Sitaram Yechury, Akhilesh Yadav, Priyanka Chaturvedi and “people in Rahul Gandhi’s office” were among those who received alerts from Apple. Apple later in a brief statement said that it does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state- “State- The tech giant further said that they are unable to provide information about what causes them to issue threat notifications, as that may help state- “The notification received by them as per media reports mentions ‘state- However much of the information by Apple on this issue seems vague and non-specific in nature. It also states that some Apple threat notifications may be false alarms or some attacks are not detected,” Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, posted on X.