UN Officials, US Lawmakers & Journalists Targeted By Alleged Vietnamese Hackers

A powerful hacking tool – designed to siphon off call and text data from phones of dozens of high-profile targets – was aimed at the social media accounts on X and Facebook of Democratic Senators Gary Peters and Chris Murphy, Republican congressman and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, United Nations officials and also multiple CNN journalists who cover East Asian affairs. Investigators are “very confident” in the links between the hackers and Vietnam, citing contract records between the Vietnamese government and a company affiliated with the spyware Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page

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