Ukraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials

2026-06-28T19:24:08Za1cad08a57619de4f87e5a3600eb4bb876e2f30f97937e653f88a35024a77344
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What happened

A large cluster of high‑risk cyber activity was reported: Russian intelligence phishing campaigns targeted messaging accounts (notably Signal) to steal credentials and backup recovery keys for account takeover; multiple state‑linked backdoors and espionage tools (STOCKSTAY, TinyRCT, Turla activity) and new malware/loaders (SharkLoader delivering Cobalt Strike, Mistic, Miasma supply‑chain variants) were observed; several Linux kernel local privilege‑escalation vulnerabilities (pedit COW CVE-2026-46331, DirtyClone CVE-2026-43503) and other high‑severity flaws (Amazon Q CVE-2026-12957, Cisco CVE-

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