Russia-linked hackers target Signal, WhatsApp of officials globally
2026-03-09T20:51:47Z•9dc6730f0f82d234fcb6ec35d5076f1ec43329e163b1b3e5897cbed1cb137244
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What happened
Collection of security incidents and research: Dutch intelligence warns of a Russia-linked campaign targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government, civil service and military officials worldwide. Cognizant’s TriZetto Provider Solutions suffered a data breach exposing sensitive health records for over 3.4 million patients. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI discovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities (mostly high severity) that were fixed in Firefox 148. A critical Nginx UI flaw (CVE-2026-27944, CVSS 9.8) allows unauthenticated download and decryption of full server backups. Trend Micro uncovered a
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- Source ID
- securityaffairs
- Record identifier
- 9dc6730f0f82d234fcb6ec35d5076f1ec43329e163b1b3e5897cbed1cb137244
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-09T20:51:47Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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