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EU governments are trying to move away from popular messaging apps as nation-state threat groups shift their focus from email to Signal and WhatsApp.
August 27, 2026
The European Union (EU) confirmed that state-sponsored hackers have been spear-phishing government officials on popular messaging apps rather than email.
Nation-state advanced persistent threats (APTs) commonly socially engineer their nation-state targets over email, impersonating quotidian business to trick targets into opening malicious websites or attachments. Yet email is where most employees expect malicious messages to come from. Messaging apps don't carry the same reputation, and encrypted ones — like WhatsApp and Signal in particular — add an extra sheen of trusted security.
