{"id":242678,"date":"2026-08-14T01:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/apple-sends-new-threat-notification-alerts-over-mercenary-spyware-attacks"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:16:55","slug":"apple-sends-new-threat-notification-alerts-over-mercenary-spyware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/apple-sends-new-threat-notification-alerts-over-mercenary-spyware-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Apple sends new \u2018Threat Notification\u2019 alerts over mercenary spyware attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-sends-new-threat-notification-alerts-over-mercenary-spyware-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not alone if you just received an \u201cApple Threat Notification\u201d saying it detected a \u201cmercenary spyware attack targeted at your iPhone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some users on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iphone\/comments\/1vnl0h7\/highly_concerning_message_what_to_do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reddit<\/a> are reporting that they received these alerts today after Apple sent out a new batch of threat notifications on August 13, but the feature itself is not new.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has been sending these threat notifications multiple times a year since 2021, when it detects highly targeted mercenary spyware attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re not alone if you just received an \u201cApple Threat Notification\u201d saying it detected a \u201cmercenary spyware attack targeted at your iPhone.\u201d Some users on Reddit are reporting that they received these alerts today after Apple sent out a new batch of threat notifications on August 13, but the feature itself is not new. Apple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}