Russian-backed hackers have gained access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts used ‌by officials, military personnel and journalists, as claimed by two intelligence agencies in the Netherlands.

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• Kissaki@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Classic phishing. Secure channels are only as good as the gate and key handling surrounding them.

  For official org-based accounts like that, I could imagine a messaging system where you can only see and share security codes with a second-person factor. If the user wants to access it, at least another authorized trained person must take part, acknowledge, and authorize the action. As long as users can access key information relatively easily, they are phishable.

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a phishing attack but I’m still going to link simplex for people looking for something more secure than signal running on google cloud.

  simplex.chat

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• mranderson17@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “Despite their end-to-end encryption option, messaging apps ​such as Signal and WhatsApp should not be used as channels for classified, confidential or sensitive information,” said ​MIVD director, Vice-Admiral Peter Reesink.

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  • tocano@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are only allowed to talk to yourself in a vaccum.

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