{"id":3173,"date":"2025-01-16T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/russian-star-blizzard-shifts-tactics-to-exploit-whatsapp-qr-codes-for-credential-harvesting\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:13:18","slug":"russian-star-blizzard-shifts-tactics-to-exploit-whatsapp-qr-codes-for-credential-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/russian-star-blizzard-shifts-tactics-to-exploit-whatsapp-qr-codes-for-credential-harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Star Blizzard Shifts Tactics to Exploit WhatsApp QR Codes for Credential Harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims&#8217; WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in a likely attempt to evade detection.<br \/>\n&#8220;Star Blizzard&#8217;s targets are most commonly related to government or diplomacy (both incumbent and former position holders), defense policy or international relations\u00a0The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims&#8217; WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in a likely attempt to evade detection.<br \/>\n&#8220;Star Blizzard&#8217;s targets are most commonly related to government or diplomacy (both incumbent and former position holders), defense policy or international relations\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims&#8217; WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in a likely attempt to evade detection. &#8220;Star Blizzard&#8217;s targets are most commonly related to government or diplomacy (both incumbent and former position holders), defense policy or&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/russian-star-blizzard-shifts-tactics-to-exploit-whatsapp-qr-codes-for-credential-harvesting\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian Star Blizzard Shifts Tactics to Exploit WhatsApp QR Codes for Credential Harvesting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}