The Washington Post reports:
Vietnamese government agents tried to plant spyware on the phones of members of Congress, American policy experts and U.S. journalists this year in a brazen campaign that underscores the rapid proliferation of state-of-the-art hacking tools, according to forensic examination of links posted to Twitter and documents uncovered by a consortium of news outlets that includes The Washington Post.
Targeted were two of the most influential foreign policy voices on Capitol Hill: Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and chair of its subcommittee on the Middle East. The spies used the social network X to try to induce the politicians and others to visit websites designed to install a hacking software known as Predator.
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WaPo: “Vietnam tried to hack U.S. officials, CNN with posts on X, probe finds.” Among the targets, @RepMcCaul @ChrisMurphyCT and myself. via @washingtonpost https://t.co/uubTHSYttX
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 9, 2023