'Jitni Tapping Karna Hai karlo...': Rahul Gandhi Slams BJP Over Alleged 'Spy Attack' On Opposition Leaders

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday while addressing a press conference slammed the BJP for a state-sponsored spy attack on opposition leaders.

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday while addressing a press conference slammed the BJP for a state-sponsored spy attack after several opposition leaders received threat messages on their iPhones. Gandhi said that Congress leaders KC Venugopal, Pawan Kheda, Supriya Srinate and his office employees have received the warning alert from Apple. Rahul also mentioned SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.

Several leaders from the opposition parties, including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha, have claimed that they received a threat notification on their iPhones from Apple. They accused the ruling BJP of being behind the state-sponsored spy attack and trying to snoop on their phones.

Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Pawan Khera, KC Venugopal, Supriya Srinate have also corfirmed received this alert from Apple on X.

BJP Refutes Oppositions's Allegations

BJP IT cell head, Amit Malviya refuted the claims of a state-sponsored spy attack by BJP and said that the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has made a joke of himself by accusing the ruling party. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Malviya said, "Apple issued a statement within minutes of Rahul Gandhi making a complete joke of himself. What is it that drives him to champion foreign agencies sponsored stories? Soros? Last time too he didn’t submit his phone for investigation. Why waste national time by making frivolous allegations?"

Apple Reacts To Threat Texts Received By Oppn Leaders

Reacting to the developments, Apple said that it doesn't attribute the threat notifications to any specific state sponsored attacker. "Apple does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state sponsored attacker. State-sponsored attackers are very well-funded and sophisticated, and their attacks evolve over time. Detecting such attacks relies on threat intelligence signals that are often imperfect and incomplete. It’s possible that some Apple threat notifications may be false alarms, or that some attacks are not detected. We are unable to provide information about what causes us to issue threat notifications, as that may help state-sponsored attackers adapt their behavior to evade detection in the future," the statement said.