{"id":8784,"date":"2025-11-28T02:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/state-backed-spyware-attacks-are-targeting-signal-and-whatsapp-users-cisa-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T02:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:01:22","slug":"state-backed-spyware-attacks-are-targeting-signal-and-whatsapp-users-cisa-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/state-backed-spyware-attacks-are-targeting-signal-and-whatsapp-users-cisa-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"State-backed spyware attacks are targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, CISA warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    State-backed spyware attacks are targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, CISA warns<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>CISA, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has issued a new warning that cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are using spyware to compromise smartphones belonging to users of popular encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/state-backed-spyware-attacks-are-targeting-signal-and-whatsapp-users-cisa-warns\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-backed spyware attacks are targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, CISA warns CISA, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has issued a new warning that cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are using spyware to compromise smartphones belonging to users of popular encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Read more in my article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,412,54,155,164,258,275,83,1051,253,506,460],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-8784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-encryption","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-malware","category-mobile","category-privacy","category-signal","category-spyware","category-telegram","category-whatsapp","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}