{"id":13979,"date":"2024-04-03T18:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/at-least-a-dozen-westminster-insiders-targeted-in-whatsapp-phishing-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T18:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:37:15","slug":"at-least-a-dozen-westminster-insiders-targeted-in-whatsapp-phishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/at-least-a-dozen-westminster-insiders-targeted-in-whatsapp-phishing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"At least a dozen Westminster insiders targeted in Whatsapp phishing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians, including a minister, advisers and journalists received potentially compromising messages over six-month period<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen politicians, advisers and journalists have been targeted in a phishing attack, in what cybersecurity experts believe is an attempt to compromise them.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve men<strong> <\/strong>working in Westminster, including a serving government minister, told Politico they had received unsolicited WhatsApp messages from two suspicious mobile numbers in the past six months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/apr\/03\/at-least-a-dozen-westminster-insiders-targeted-in-whatsapp-phishing-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a6a22dfa7bcbcc1d89c12827e1f6ee0f9e37333a\/0_0_5611_3366\/master\/5611.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ef50e53317da716ac3ac9a38a067ee1a\" title=\"At least a dozen Westminster insiders targeted in Whatsapp phishing attack\" \/>Politicians, including a minister, advisers and journalists received potentially compromising messages over six-month period<br \/>\nMore than a dozen politicians, advisers and journalists have been targeted in a phishing attack, in what cybersecurity experts believe is an attempt to compromise them.<br \/>\nTwelve men working in Westminster, including a serving government minister, told Politico they had received unsolicited WhatsApp messages from two suspicious mobile numbers in the past six months. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians, including a minister, advisers and journalists received potentially compromising messages over six-month period More than a dozen politicians, advisers and journalists have been targeted in a phishing attack, in what cybersecurity experts believe is an attempt to compromise them. Twelve men working in Westminster, including a serving government minister, told Politico they had received &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/at-least-a-dozen-westminster-insiders-targeted-in-whatsapp-phishing-attack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At least a dozen Westminster insiders targeted in Whatsapp phishing attack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}