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Meta says Iranian group tried to target Trump, Biden officials' WhatsApp accounts

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Meta says Iranian group tried to target Trump, Biden officials' WhatsApp accounts

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, confirmed that it has discovered hacking attempts on WhatsApp accounts belonging to U.S. officials from the Biden and Trump administrations. The attempts were linked to an Iranian hacker group known as APT42, which previously targeted the Trump campaign. The activity involved social engineering on WhatsApp accounts posing as technical support for various companies, such as AOL and Google. Although there is no evidence of compromised accounts, Meta has blocked the suspicious activity. The hackers targeted political, diplomatic, and public figures associated with the Biden and Trump administrations, located in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Iran, the U.S., and the U.K.

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