RUSSIAN SECURITY COMPANIES have been given the green light to hack messaging services including Facebook Messenger, Skype and WhatsApp following the adoption of a controversial anti-terrorism measure known as Yarovaya Law.
A report in Russian newspaper Kommersant said that Russian security outfit Con Certeza, which works closely with the country’s law enforcement agencies, has developed various tools to crack encrypted communications.
The tools will enable the agencies not just to decrypt and read the traffic, but to deploy man-in-the-middle attacks against users.
