""The campaign targets individuals of high intelligence value, including current and former U.S. government officials, military personnel, political figures, and journalists," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X."
""These attacks - when successful - can allow malicious actors to access conversation histories, or even take control of their victims' messaging accounts and send messages while impersonating them," C4 said."
Threat actors linked to Russian Intelligence Services are executing phishing campaigns aimed at compromising commercial messaging applications like WhatsApp and Signal. These campaigns target individuals of high intelligence value, including U.S. government officials, military personnel, and journalists. The attacks have led to unauthorized access to thousands of accounts, allowing actors to view messages, send messages as victims, and conduct further phishing. The campaigns do not exploit security vulnerabilities in the platforms' encryption protections, and prior reports have linked these activities to multiple Russia-aligned threat clusters.
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