Fake Support Accounts, Real Spies: FBI Exposes Evolving Russian Phishing Threat To Messaging Apps

SBU, FBI Uncover Russian Cyber Campaign Targeting Officials

On Thursday, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said they uncovered a coordinated Russian cyber campaign targeting the messaging accounts of officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe, and the US. The agencies warned that Russian hackers are also attempting to compromise the personal accounts of ordinary Ukrainians.

FBI Warns Russian Intelligence Hackers Target Signal Backup Recovery Keys

The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added a step: they now coax targets into handing over their Signal Backup Recovery Key. Hand it over once, and the attacker can restore the account's backup, read the private and group message history, and take over the account. Worse, the key keeps working.

FBI says Russian intelligence hackers have a new trick for reading your Signal messages, and it works even after you change phones

The FBI and CISA have warned that Russian intelligence hackers are now targeting Signal users’ backup recovery keys, an escalation of a phishing campaign that has already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide. The updated advisory, published Thursday, says that handing over the key once gives attackers the ability to restore an account’s backup, read its [] This story continues at The Next Web

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Russian intelligence services are posing as Ukrainian security agencies in a new recruitment scheme that uses fake criminal investigations and forged SBU documents.