Top officials in the German government on Saturday blamed Russia for repeated phishing attacks targeting lawmakers and senior administration officials using the Signal messaging app.
"The federal government is assuming that the phishing campaign targeting the Signal messaging service was presumably run from Russia," a government source told AFP.
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