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The Department of National Security of the Presidency of the Government and the National Intelligence Center (CNI) are investigating the hacking of mobile phones of ministers and senior officials that took place during the month of August, as explained this Saturday by El Confidencial . Among them, that of the Minister of Justice, Juan Carlos Campo, whose cell phone was hacked and was practically blocked and unusable. Likewise, other ministers and government officials recorded similar attacks on their phones . However, only in some cases did the attackers achieve their objective.
Read more: Hackers are getting better at how they trick people into handing over their passwords – here's what to watch out for, according to experts During the attack, the different authorities received messages asking them to click on an address, a well-known phishing technique . Thus, if they did so, they exposed all the content of the mobile phone to Lithuania Mobile Number List the perpetrators of the attack, which included contacts and all stored material. The cell phones were then automatically locked. According to one of the ministers, always according to what El Confidencial publishes , in one of the cases he received a message apparently coming from a large embassy in Spain and asking him to click on the contact.
And, although he claims not to have done so in that case, in other similar cases he would have done so. In this sense, ministers and senior government officials have received security instructions for their communications , according to El Confidencial . The purpose of the investigation by the CNI is to determine if it is accidental that it affected senior officials or if it is an intentional attack on members of the central Administration. If it is premeditated, experts will try to find out the origin. Read more: RadarCOVID is already tracking contacts in Spain: this is how apps from 5 European countries have helped or failed in combating coronavirus outbreaks The system used is the most common and is based on phishing , which consists of WhatsApp or email messages that, posing as someone you trust, ask you to click on a link.