A number of US officials including members of Congress were targeted by hackers working for Vietnam’s government during negotiations that led to the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, according to an analysis from several major news organisations.
A report published on Monday by The Washington Post which was jointly conducted with reporters from Mediapart and Der Spiegel detailed a wide-ranging phishing scheme carried out on the platform Twitter/X against targets including the Republican and Democratic chairs of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees, respectively, as well as a handful of reporters at CNN and a number of east Asia policy experts at Washington-based think tanks.
