But it doesn't matter - this is happening 100% guaranteed.
'We' do it and China has become far more aggressive in these areas these days ... so if they could be doing it, they would be.
Someone should come up with a bit of proof though.
" this is happening 100% guaranteed."
I don't know what brave new world we have entered where journalists, or even online users for that matter, make confident claims about things for which there is no physical evidence.
I worked at a large high-tech firm with business in the middle east, including content-filtering solutions and we were basically 'required' to work with Western governmental entities of a 'security nature'.
The US has massive clandestine projects in this regard and some of them are not so secret - consider the recent Wikileaks: [1]
"The US intelligence agency has been involved in a concerted effort to write various kinds of malware to spy on just about every piece of electronic equipment that people use. That includes iPhones, Androids and computers running Windows, macOS and Linux."
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
All countries with active spy/clandestine agencies are spying on one another using malware, spyware, hardware hacking, phishing, social engineering, whatever. And many firms are complicit to one degree or another.
That Apple or AWS etc. may have been compromised with a specific attack makes for a really weird story - but that this is happening in general is a non-story - of course it is. It's not about this specific attack really.