Researchers have uncovered a string of campaigns against Telegram and Instagram users including the hijack of traffic through the BGP protocol. More security news China has been ‘hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries’ Emotet malware gang is mass-harvesting millions of emails in mysterious campaign Zuckerberg disses Apple, misses Inside the mind of a sextortion scam artist The threat actors behind the attacks — whether state-sponsored or otherwise — are focusing exclusively on citizens of Iran that use either the encrypted messaging app or image-sharing service.

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