Furthermore this isn't the first of its kind; Google has been alerting high-risk Gmail users about state-sponsored hacking for about a decade now. Microsoft probably does something similar.
It’s great that Google alerted Gmail users, but then what?
“We believe you may be a target of a state-sponsored attacker; have a nice day.”
Beyond just telling you, Apple is providing some tools to do something about it.
Google advanced protection mode has been available for a while.
The threat models are different because the companies provide different services (spear phishing defenses from the web services company, hardware defences from the hardware provider), but still.
It’s great that Google alerted Gmail users, but then what?
“We believe you may be a target of a state-sponsored attacker; have a nice day.”
Beyond just telling you, Apple is providing some tools to do something about it.