FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacks

2026-03-22T19:24:13Zde6137f6222870bbbc7d9d128f58b0a05c557a3f7c1e93a7790add255bb0e1ca
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What happened

Multiple high-impact and actively exploited threats were reported across infrastructure, supply chains, and consumer platforms. Notable items: a mass phishing campaign (attributed to Russian intelligence) targeting messaging apps (Signal, WhatsApp); critical unauthenticated RCEs in Oracle Identity Manager (CVE-2026-21992, CVSS 9.8), Cisco FMC (CVE-2026-20131, CVSS 10.0) being used by Interlock ransomware, GNU telnetd (CVE-2026-32746, CVSS 9.8), and Langflow (CVE-2026-33017, CVSS 9.3) with rapid weaponization. Supply-chain attacks against the Trivy project and its GitHub Actions have led to CI/

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