State-sponsored hacking impossible to guard against: Experts on Oppn MPs’ claims

New Delhi: After several Parliamentarians and journalists complained that they received alerts from Apple that their devices have come under a “state-sponsored” hacking attack, experts said that such attacks are virtually impossible to guard against. Unlike traditional cybercriminals, state-sponsored attackers apply exceptional resources to target a very small number of specific individuals and their devices, experts said, which makes these attacks much harder to detect and prevent.