Tag: social engineering
US Offers $10M Reward for Russian Hackers Targeting Signal and WhatsApp Accounts
The State Department's Rewards for Justice program is offering up to $10 million for information on two FSB- and GRU-linked groups that…
Meta’s AI Support Bot Exploited to Reset Instagram Passwords
Pro-Iranian hackers circulated a Telegram tutorial showing how to trick Meta's AI customer support assistant into linking a new email address to…
Microsoft Teams Becomes Prime Vector for IT Impersonation Phishing
Threat actors including APT29 are exploiting overly permissive Teams federation settings to impersonate IT staff and trick employees into approving MFA prompts.…
Russian Intelligence Actors Evolve Signal Phishing to Steal Backup Recovery Keys
A campaign attributed to Russian Intelligence Services has expanded beyond account hijacking to trick high-value targets into surrendering their Signal Backup Recovery…
Russia-Linked Campaign Targeted Messaging Accounts of Officials Across Three Countries
The SSU and FBI have jointly exposed a sustained Russian intelligence operation that used fraudulent support messages to compromise the messaging accounts…