On Friday, August 23, Meta announced it had detected new potential attempts to hack WhatsApp accounts belonging to officials from the administration of US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, according to Reuters. In Meta’s blog post described the attempts in its blog as a “small cluster of likely social engineering activity on WhatsApp.” The hackers attempted to pose as technical support representatives from AOL, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. The company blocked the accounts after users reported suspicious activity and found no evidence that the targeted WhatsApp accounts ha…