FBI, CISA issue PSA on Russian intelligence campaign to target messaging apps

2026-03-20T20:51:46Z4d205b3e9788e4ea1e9b0de040b6af5f0f3a6859be4c0aba724cf1975caa7d2c
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What happened

Multiple CyberScoop reports covering high-risk cyber activity and mitigations: FBI and CISA issued a public service announcement warning of a Russian intelligence campaign targeting messaging apps (Signal and others), echoing alerts from the Netherlands and Germany. Researchers and vendors report a second iOS exploit kit (DarkSword) used by suspected Russian actors, possibly leveraging tools developed by U.S. government actors. Ubiquiti disclosed a maximum-severity vulnerability in the UniFi Networking Application that could enable account takeover (not yet observed in the wild). The U.S. DOJ/

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