I think the important points here are a) Why are MPs etc. using WhatsApp? and b) Why are they sending dick picks to people they don’t know?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A police investigation has been launched after MPs were apparently targeted in a “spear-phishing” attack, in what security experts believe could be an attempt to compromise parliament.

Twelve people working in Westminster, including a serving government minister, told Politico they had received unsolicited WhatsApp messages from two suspicious mobile numbers in the past six months.

Politico reported that the 12 targets it had confirmed so far included three MPs, two political journalists, a broadcaster, four party staff, a former Tory MP, and an all-party parliamentary group manager.

Sophia Gaston, from the Policy Exchange thinktank, said: “So many of the recent high-profile cases of espionage have involved efforts to infiltrate the wider Westminster ecosystem, often via new forms of communication like WhatsApp, which are much harder for the security services to monitor and intercept than systems like email.

“The Defending Democracy Taskforce is one of the most important instruments government has to operationalise a whole-of-society resilience agenda, and it’s vital it is properly resourced to be able to respond to the changing landscape.

“There are obvious concerns in an election year, in which hundreds of new MPs and inexperienced staffers will enter parliament, that we don’t have the right arsenal in place to manage the full suite of risks to our national security.”

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