Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn
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**Executive summary:** Dutch intelligence agencies report a large-scale, global campaign attributed to Russian state actors that uses phishing and social engineering (malicious messages, requests for SMS verification codes and PINs, QR codes and links) to hijack Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government and military officials and journalists; compromises enable impersonation, access to contacts and potentially past messages on WhatsApp, and account lockout of victims.
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