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Apple warns users in 99 countries about mercenary spyware
Apple notified users in 99 countries about mercenary spyware and says it does not attribute the attacks or the alerts to malicious actors or specific regions.
According to Apple's notification, reported by The Record feed on November 2, 2026, the company sent alerts to users in 99 countries about mercenary spyware attacks. Apple states that it does not attribute the attacks or the alerts to malicious actors or specific geographic regions. The reason cited is the extreme cost, sophistication and worldwide reach of these attacks, which the notification says make them some of the most advanced digital threats existing today. The source text is a machine translation, so terms and details should be checked against the original. To consult and verify, look for Apple's own notification and the original The Record report, comparing dates, the number of countries and the company's wording. This is a security news item: Rota Nacional does not protect personal devices against spyware and does not offer attack detection. What the platform does is detect personal data such as CPF, CNPJ, email, phone and names before any model runs, applying placeholders, removal or a block, and keep raw prompts and completions only in an AES-256-GCM encrypted audit archive.
Original source: Apple alerta usuários de 99 países sobre spyware mercenário