The FBI has issued a public announcement warning that Russian threat actors are engaged in a phishing campaign on commercial messaging apps.
The campaign, being run by clusters of Russian Intelligence Services (RIS), mostly targets individuals deemed to have high intelligence value, such as former and current American and international government officials, political figures, military members, journalists, and officials located in Ukraine, the FBI said in a June 26 public alert along with the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.
An earlier March 20 alert from the agency warned that Russian cyber spies were posing as automated support accounts for messaging apps and sending phishing messages to targets….