Sept 3 Apple spyware alerts mark fourth wave of 2025

Apple issued a fresh round of security alerts on September 3 informing some users that their devices had been targeted in a spyware campaign, French cyber incident responders said, marking at least the fourth such notification campaign involving Apple devices this year. France's national Computer Emergency Response Team, CERTFR, which operates under the national cybersecurity agency ANSSI, confirmed the September 3 notices in a security advisory published this month and urged any recipients in France to contact the agency immediately.

According to CERTFR, and a related report from France's information security agency, Apple sends these threat notifications when at least one device linked to an iCloud account is believed to have been targeted and may be compromised. The alerts appear as iMessages from verified Apple addresses, as emails from threatnotificationsatemail.apple.com or threatnotificationsatapple.com, and as warnings on account.apple.com after login. The agency said the interval between an attempted compromise and Apple’s notification can be several months and is variable.

CERTFR’s documents list earlier notification waves in 2025 on March 5 and June 25, and on two...