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31 Oct 2022 News
RUSSIA SUSPECTED IN TRUSS PHONE HACKING SCANDAL
PHIL MUNCASTER UK / EMEA NEWS REPORTER, INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s personal phone was hacked earlier this year
by suspected foreign agents, putting national security at risk, according to a
new report on Sunday.
Unnamed “security sources” told the Mail on Sunday that the incident was
discovered during the Conservative Party leadership contest over the summer,
causing Truss sleepless nights as she worried it may impact her chances of
winning.
However, then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and cabinet secretary Simon Case are
said to have imposed a total news blackout on the incident.
“It is not a great look for the intelligence services if the foreign secretary’s
phone can be so easily plundered for embarrassing personal messages by agents
presumed to be working for Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” a security source told the
paper.
No evidence was given linking the breach to the Kremlin, although it’s believed
that a year’s worth of messages were downloaded from Truss’s device by an
unauthorized intruder.
These apparently included “highly sensitive” conversations with other countries’
foreign ministers about the war in Ukraine, including detailed discussions about
arms shipments.
The use by ministers of personal devices and consumer-grade services for
government business is creating unacceptable national security risks, according
to security experts.
Home secretary Suella Braverman was recently forced to resign after it was
revealed that she used her personal email to send a confidential government
document on immigration policy to a Tory backbencher. She was subsequently
reappointed by incoming PM Rishi Sunak.
ESET global cybersecurity advisor, Jake Moore, pointed to notorious
phone-snooping malware Pegasus as a potential culprit for the Truss attack.
“Its quiet, under-the-radar delivery method enables it to monitor the vast
majority of a device and those targeted will have no idea of its residence,” he
argued.
“High-profile people such as politicians are often targeted, so it is extremely
important they keep their personal phone number private and to change it
immediately if ever leaked. It is also imperative that they keep their phones up
to date and patched with the latest security updates to reduce the chance of
such attacks.”
Achi Lewis, area VP EMEA for Absolute Software, added that everyone in an
organization is a potential target.
“From the Prime Minister to a new joiner, every potential employee and endpoint
is at risk of a cyber-attack,” he said.
“All members of staff and electronic devices contain sensitive data in some form
which makes them vulnerable to threat actors and requires that they not only
have sufficient cyber-training to identify the dangers but also effective
cybersecurity technologies to both prevent and react when – not if – an attack
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