EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows

Foreign governments have tried to break into the messaging accounts of senior European Union officials. The bloc’s own cyber defence unit told national governments so in July. An internal presentation lists “account takeover targeting high-ranking officials” among the top threats facing the bloc this year. Sam Clark obtained the document for Politico. It is the first official acknowledgement that anyone targeted EU officials through messaging apps. It is also the first time an EU authority has formally attributed such attacks to a foreign government. What the presentation describes The officials were hit with what the document calls state-sponsored spearphishing. That…