MOSCOW: Russia's national security agency has accused the United States of being behind a cyberattack on thousands of Apple devices as cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said it discovered spyware on iPhones used by its staff.

Moscow's Federal Security Service, or the FSB, said on Thursday the US National Security Agency was in "close cooperation" with Apple as thousands of devices were "infected" and that the telephone numbers of people working at Russian embassies abroad were leaked.

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