Meta said it blocked a “small cluster” of WhatsApp accounts linked to an Iranian hacking group targeting U.S. officials.
Meta said that it blocked a"small cluster" of WhatsApp accounts linked to an Iranian hacking group that targeted officials associated with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
The company said in a blog post that the bogus WhatsApp accounts appeared to originate from the Iranian threat actor dubbed APT42. With less than 75 days until the November election, Meta is attracting increased public attention due to ways that Facebook has been exploited and manipulated in prior presidential campaigns.
With less than 75 days until the November election, Meta is attracting increased public attention due to ways that Facebook has been exploited and manipulated in the two prior presidential campaigns. The company said it hasn't seen any evidence that the accounts of any WhatsApp users were compromised, and it's sharing more information with"law enforcement and our industry peers."
Meta said its security team was able to spot APT42's involvement after analyzing suspicious messages that an unspecified number of users reported receiving from the fraudulent WhatsApp accounts."These accounts posed as technical support for AOL, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft," Meta said in the blog post."Some of the people targeted by APT42 reported these suspicious messages to WhatsApp using our in-app reporting tools.
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