{"id":251288,"date":"2026-08-16T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/251288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:52:12","slug":"iranian-intel-trying-to-hack-israeli-journalists-phones-and-accounts-shin-bet-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/251288\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Intel Trying to Hack Israeli Journalists&#8217; Phones and Accounts, Shin Bet Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">Iranian intelligence operatives are contacting Israeli journalists via WhatsApp and Telegram, posing as familiar figures and inviting them for interviews or offering to collaborate on projects in an attempt to hack their devices, take over their accounts and obtain sensitive information, according to an official statement issued Sunday by the Shin Bet security service and the Israel National Cyber Directorate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian intelligence operatives are contacting Israeli journalists via WhatsApp and Telegram, posing as familiar figures and inviting them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[2241,34,37,18322,214,6425,8221,15240],"class_list":["post-251288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-cyber-warfare","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-intelligence","tag-israel-iran","tag-israels-media","tag-october-7","tag-shin-bet"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117105049125224746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}