U.S. accused of spying on thousands of Apple phones by Russia.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of using previously unknown malware to access specially made backdoor vulnerabilities in Apple phones. The FSB said that several thousand Apple phones had been infected, including those of domestic Russian subscribers, as well as telephones belonging to foreign diplomats based in Russia and the former Soviet Union, including those from NATO members, Israel, Syria and China. The FSB said the plot showed the close relationship between Apple and the NSA, the US agency responsible for US cryptographic and communications intelligence and security.