{"id":1372767,"date":"2026-03-23T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-is-conducting-a-large-scale-campaign-against-messenger-users-hackers-gained-access-to-thousands-of-accounts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:39:24","slug":"russia-is-conducting-a-large-scale-campaign-against-messenger-users-hackers-gained-access-to-thousands-of-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-is-conducting-a-large-scale-campaign-against-messenger-users-hackers-gained-access-to-thousands-of-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is conducting a large-scale campaign against messenger users: hackers gained access to thousands of accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hackers associated with Russian intelligence services are conducting a large-scale campaign to steal access data to messenger accounts, including Signal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/CenterCounteringDisinformation\/17519\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was announced by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Center for Countering Disinformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the CPD, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that the hacking operation is aimed at individuals \u2014 US officials, military personnel, politicians, and journalists \u2014 who represent \u201chigh intelligence value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criminals have already managed to gain access to thousands of user accounts. This way, they can read private correspondence, view contact lists, and send messages on behalf of the page owner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, hackers will be able to use stolen accounts for further phishing attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is important that the encryption of messengers has not been broken. Compromise occurs through the actions of the users themselves \u2014 hackers impersonate representatives of security services and lure confirmation codes,\u201d the Center explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is added that Dutch intelligence services have previously also reported on the Russian campaign against Signal and WhatsApp users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers associated with Russian intelligence services are conducting a large-scale campaign to steal access data to messenger accounts, including Signal. This was announced by the Center for Countering Disinformation. According to the CPD, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that the hacking operation is aimed at individuals \u2014 US officials, military personnel, politicians, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":148324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875,77305],"class_list":["post-1372767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-stopfake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}