FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacks
2026-03-22T07:24:14Z•b46c72b553ecf316579f4eab88cfd22001ccaf6073156609a77650498bae23a8
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What happened
A batch of high-impact cybersecurity events: Russian intelligence‑linked actors are conducting mass phishing campaigns to compromise messaging apps (Signal, WhatsApp); multiple critical, actively exploited vulnerabilities were disclosed (including Oracle Identity Manager unauthenticated RCE and Cisco FMC deserialization exploited by Interlock ransomware). Supply‑chain attacks hit the Trivy ecosystem twice — one leading to a self‑propagating CanisterWorm across npm packages and another hijacking GitHub Actions to steal CI/CD secrets. Researchers and vendors also reported critical unauth RCEs (e
Why it matters
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