Author: Katie Paul

Meta announced on Friday that it had detected possible hacking attempts on the WhatsApp accounts of US officials from both the Biden and Trump administrations. The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, identified the hacking activity as a “small cluster of likely social engineering activity” involving accounts pretending to be technical support for AOL, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Although Meta blocked these suspicious accounts, no evidence suggested that the targeted WhatsApp accounts were compromised. The hacking attempts were attributed to APT42, an Iranian hacker group known for placing surveillance software on victims’ phones to record calls, steal messages, and…