Posted on 10/09/2023 1:38:50 PM PDT by bitt
Vietnamese government agents apparently targeted several U.S. lawmakers and journalists with spyware using public posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to an investigation by Amnesty International and a consortium of media outlets.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) were all tagged in posts earlier this year that featured malicious links to install Predator, a spyware similar to Pegasus, the investigation found.
McCaul, who serves as the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was allegedly targeted in a reply to a tweet from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while Hoeven was allegedly targeted in a reply to a post from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen about the senator’s visit.
Peters, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were both tagged in a reply to a tweet from an Albanian politician about their visit to the Balkan nation.
CNN, its chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto and two other reporters based in Taiwan were also targeted with malicious links to install the Predator spyware, the investigation found.
Most of the posts on X came from the account @Joseph_Gordon16, which has since disappeared from the social media platform, and often included links that mimicked news sites.
The Washington Post reported that none of the targeted individuals it reached out to said their devices had been infected with the spyware. The Post was part of the consortium of outlets participating in the investigation.
Amnesty International said its findings “suggest that agents of the Vietnamese authorities, or persons acting on their behalf, may be behind the spyware campaign.”
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LOL ….. every country, in the world, is trying to place spyware on their enemies phones
And their friends phones
Everyone spies on everyone. The main rule of international intelligence agencies.
Catch them and sanction them as you can. But expect them to keep spying because they will
Pingu.
“Vietnamese government agents apparently targeted several U.S. lawmakers and journalists with spyware using public posts on X”
Vietnamese government agents: you VC. You #10.
But the phones were already so full of DOJ Spyware, the programs had no space in memory capacity.
Ha!
Spyware?! Hahahahahahah, who needs spyware when you can just listen to every phone and a computer searches for info among the data…
Joe was just over in Vietnam cutting energy deals with them. Just days after Joe left, Vietnam detained an energy expert. Another five energy and climate experts are also currently detained in Vietnam.
“CNN, its chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto and two other reporters based in Taiwan were also targeted with malicious links to install the Predator spyware”
Why target their friends? I’m pretty sure CNN broadcasts are very similar to Vietnamese communist broadcasts.
Surprised they could find room what with all the Chinese, Russian, and for all we know, Lithuanian and Canadian spyware.
“Me love you long time, Joe. Oh, is that new Apple iPhone? Can I see for minute?
Vietnam can just pay the politicians like so many other counties do.....
Bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong harbor
Just to return the luv
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