Google Expects Tactics to Spread; Global Targets and Other Services at Risk. Russian nation-state hackers are using phishing attacks to target Ukrainian users of the chat app Signal, say security researchers. Rather than circumventing Signal’s end-to-end encryption via a cryptographic attack, attackers use malicious prompting to prod victims into exposing messages.
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