Apple spoke about the new Lockdown Mode function, which will appear in iOS 16, iPados 16 and MacOS Ventura. According to the corporation, the innovation will protect human rights activists, journalists and opposition from targeted cyberspiration. Recall that at present these versions of the OS are tested by developers, and public bets are expected this month.

If the user of the “apple” device activates Lockdown Mode, its messages, the history of visiting sites in the browser and other activity on the network will be protected from spy software like PEGASUS (development of NSO Group).

As a rule, in such campaigns, attackers use attacks of the Zero-Click type and exploit vulnerabilities in instant messengers (for example, WhatsApp and Facetime) and browsers. Lockdown Mode's task is to block operation attempts.

If we talk about the restrictions, Lockdown Mode will turn off the following possibilities:

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