Russian Hackers Phish EU Officials Over Messaging Apps
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Feed Name: Dark Reading
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A series of state-sponsored spear-phishing campaigns in 2026 targeted high-ranking EU officials by abusing trusted messaging apps (Signal, WhatsApp) to socially engineer account takeovers and compromise official communications; multiple EU governments reported incidents, attribution to nation-state actors (notably Russia) was indicated, and a separate incident exposed three years of French government communications from the Tchap messaging service on the dark web.
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