{"id":997617,"date":"2026-03-11T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997617"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:56:28","slug":"russia-backed-hackers-target-signal-and-whatsapp-accounts-how-the-attack-works-how-to-stay-safe-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/russia-backed-hackers-target-signal-and-whatsapp-accounts-how-the-attack-works-how-to-stay-safe-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-backed hackers target Signal and WhatsApp accounts: How the attack works, how to stay safe and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch intelligence agencies have issued a stark warning regarding a new, highly sophisticated global cyber campaign. Two intelligence agencies in the Netherlands warned earlier this week that Russian-backed hackers are gaining access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts used by officials, military personnel and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dutch intelligence and security services MIVD and AIVD can confirm that targets and victims of the campaign include Dutch government employees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch intelligence agencies have issued a stark warning regarding a new, highly sophisticated global cyber campaign. Two intelligence agencies in the Netherlands warned earlier this week that Russian-backed hackers are gaining access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts used by officials, military personnel and journalists. \u201cThe Dutch intelligence and security services MIVD and AIVD can confirm that targets and victims of the campaign include Dutch government employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}