22-02-2025 18:34 via it.slashdot.org

Encrypted Messages Are Being Targeted, Google Security Group Warns

Google's Threat Intelligence Group notes "the growing threat to secure messaging applications." While specifically acknowledging "wide ranging efforts to compromise Signal accounts," they add that the threat "also extends to other popular messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Telegram, which are also being actively targeted by Russian-aligned threat groups using similar techniques.
"In anticipation of a wider adoption of similar tradecraft by other threat actors, we are issuing a public wa
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