Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign
HelloUsername
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March 09, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
ezst
Reminder if one was needed that the future of your instant messaging shouldn't be above all "the same thing, but with more crypto" (e.g. Signal), but "less centralisation, then a reasonable amount of crypto" (federation e.g. XMPP or P2P ; though I don't know a P2P solution that's recommendable).
Kim_Bruning
AIVD is the dutch intelligence agency. So that's an interesting source! They're not hacking the systems directly, just phishing by the looks of it.