"Keep Your Guards Up, So We Understand What Level of Attack We Are Under". Martirosyan Warns

Information security expert Samvel Martirosyan wrote on his Facebook page:  "I want to inform you that last night a number of citizens of Armenia received a letter from Apple stating that they have become victims of attacks by state hackers. At Cyberhub.am, together with Artur Papyan, we are aware of about ten people affected. Among them are journalists, high-ranking officials, and well-known opposition figures. We have managed to check two phones. On one of them, the Pegasus spyware was discovered. The other was clean, but that individual had just changed their phone, so it might have been information about the infection of the previous phone. We cannot definitively say which country the infection came from. Or whether we are dealing with one country or multiple infections. In other words, what I mean is that we do not know if it is the work of Armenian, Azerbaijani, Turkish intelligence agencies, or a mix of all of them together. It is certain that this is a state matter since Pegasus is sold only to state entities. If you have received such a letter, please contact me, or Artur Papyan, or our Cyberhub.am page. Or if you do not trust us, contact Ruben Muradyan. Keep your guards up, so we understand what level of attack we are under,” he wrote.