MPs are facing rising numbers of phishing attacks and Russia-based actors are actively targeting the WhatsApp and Signal accounts of politicians and officials, UK parliamentary authorities have warned.

MPs, peers and officials are being asked to step up their cybersecurity after a continued rise in attacks that have involved messages pretending to be from the app’s support team, asking a user to enter an access code, click a link or scan a QR code.

If successful, the attacker can read the parliamentarian’s messages, download their contact lists and monitor their activity, all without being discovered, according to a memo sent on Thursday and seen by the Guardian.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), based at GCHQ, shared new measures in October to protect parliamentarians from p

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