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Dutch govt warns of Signal, WhatsApp account hijacking attacks

Russian state-sponsored hackers have been linked to an ongoing Signal and WhatsApp phishing campaign targeting government officials, military personnel, and journalists to gain access to sensitive messages.

This report comes from the Netherlands Defence Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) and the Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), who confirmed that Dutch government employees have been targeted in the attacks.

The Dutch intelligence agencies say the operation relies on phishing and social-engineering techniques that abuse legitimate authentication features to take over accounts and covertly monitor new messages.

Transparent Tribe Uses AI to Mass-Produce Malware Implants in Campaign Targeting India

The Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has become the latest hacking group to embrace artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding tools to strike targets with various implants.

The activity is designed to produce a “high-volume, mediocre mass of implants” that are developed using lesser-known programming languages like Nim, Zig, and Crystal and rely on trusted services like Slack, Discord, Supabase, and Google Sheets to fly under the radar, according to new findings from Bitdefender.

“Rather than a breakthrough in technical sophistication, we are seeing a transition toward AI-assisted malware industrialization that allows the actor to flood target environments with disposable, polyglot binaries,” security researchers Radu Tudorica, Adrian Schipor, Victor Vrabie, Marius Baciu, and Martin Zugec said in a technical breakdown of the campaign.

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Chinese state hackers target telcos with new malware toolkit

A China-linked advanced persistent threat actor tracked as UAT-9244 has been targeting telecommunication service providers in South America since 2024, compromising Windows, Linux, and network-edge devices.

According to Cisco Talos researchers, the adversary is closely associated with the FamousSparrow and Tropic Trooper hacker groups, but is tracked as a separate activity cluster.

This assessment has high confidence and is based on similar tooling, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and victimology observed in attacks attributed to the threat actors.

Europol-Led Operation Takes Down Tycoon 2FA Phishing-as-a-Service Linked to 64,000 Attacks

The panel serves as a hub for configuring, tracking, and refining campaigns. It features pre‑built templates, attachment files for common lure formats, domain and hosting configuration, redirect logic, and victim tracking. Operators can also configure how the malicious content is delivered through attachments, as well as keep tabs on valid and invalid sign-in attempts.

The captured information, such as credentials, multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes, and session cookies, can be downloaded directly within the panel or forwarded to Telegram for near‑real‑time monitoring.

“It enabled thousands of cybercriminals to covertly access email and cloud-based service accounts,” Europol said. “At scale, the platform generated tens of millions of phishing emails each month and facilitated unauthorized access to nearly 100,000 organizations globally, including schools, hospitals, and public institutions.”

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