New Spear-Phishing Attack Targeting Security Individuals in Israel Region

**Urgent alert:** A targeted spear-phishing campaign leveraging WhatsApp and custom URL shorteners (msnl.ink and related .ink/.info domains) is impersonating conference invitations to steal credentials and sometimes deliver malicious files; infrastructure analysis and reused operational patterns link the campaign to APT42 (Charming Kitten), with hosting across multiple countries and consistent Microsoft-IIS server fingerprints.