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iPhones of At Least 9 US State Officials Said to Be Hacked by NSO Group Spyware

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iPhones of At Least 9 US State Officials Said to Be Hacked by NSO Group Spyware

According to four people familiar with the matter, an unidentified attacker used sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group to hack the Apple iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees.

Two sources said that hacker attacks in the past few months have attacked US officials in Uganda or are concerned about affairs related to this East African country.

The intrusion reported here for the first time represents the most extensive hacking attack by U.S. officials using NSO technology. Previously, in the NSO report, a numerical list of potential targets including some US officials appeared, but it is not clear whether the invasion is always attempted or successful. Reuters could not determine who launched the latest cyber attack.

NSO Group said in a statement on Thursday that there is no indication that their tools have been used, but that it has cancelled access to relevant customers and will conduct an investigation based on a Reuters investigation.

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“If our investigation reveals that these behaviors were indeed caused by using NSO tools, then the customer will be permanently terminated and legal action taken,” an NSO spokesperson said, adding that NSO will also “cooperate with any relevant government agency And provide complete information”. The information we will have. “NSO has long stated that it only sells its products to government law enforcement and intelligence customers to help them monitor security threats, and does not directly participate in surveillance operations.

Officials at the Uganda Embassy in Washington did not comment. An Apple spokesperson declined to comment.

A spokesperson for the State Department declined to comment on the invasion, but instead pointed out that the U.S. Department of Commerce recently decided to include the Israeli company on the list of entities, making it more difficult for U.S. companies to do business with them.

NSO Group and another spyware company “in accordance with their decision to develop and provide spyware to foreign governments that use this tool to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businessmen, activists, academics, and embassy staff, add it to the entity In the list,” the Ministry of Commerce said in an announcement last month.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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