Security News

Russian phishing campaigns exploit Signal's device-linking feature
2025-02-19 11:59

Russian threat actors have been launching phishing campaigns that exploit the legitimate "Linked Devices" feature in the Signal messaging app to gain unauthorized access to accounts of interest. [...]

X now blocks Signal contact links, flags them as malicious
2025-02-17 17:39

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is now blocking links to "Signal.me," a URL used by the Signal encrypted messaging to share your account info with another person. [...]

Signal will let you sync old messages when linking new devices
2025-01-28 16:27

Signal is finally adding a new feature that allows users to synchronize their old message history from their primary iOS or Android devices to newly linked devices like desktops and iPads. [...]

CISA: Use Signal or other secure communications app
2024-12-20 12:19

In the wake of the widespread compromise of US telecom giants’ networks by Chinese hackers and the FBI advising Americans to use end-to-end encrypted communications, CISA is advising “highly...

CISA urges switch to Signal-like encrypted messaging apps after telecom hacks
2024-12-18 18:19

Today, CISA urged senior government and political officials to switch to end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal following a wave of telecom breaches across dozens of countries, including...

Signal introduces convenient "call links" for private group chats
2024-11-12 17:26

The Signal messenger application has announced a set of new features aimed at making private group chats more convenient and easier for people to join. [...]

China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means
2024-09-17 04:29

If this really was that useful, they wouldn't be telling us According to a Chinese state-sanctioned study, signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband internet satellites could be used to track US...

New RAMBO Attack Uses RAM Radio Signals to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks
2024-09-09 17:19

A novel side-channel attack has been found to leverage radio signals emanated by a device's random access memory (RAM) as a data exfiltration mechanism, posing a threat to air-gapped networks. The...

Russia blocks Signal for 'violating' anti-terrorism laws
2024-08-09 19:07

Russia's telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has restricted access to the Signal encrypted messaging service for what it describes as violations of Russian anti-terrorism and anti-extremism...

Signal downplays encryption key flaw, fixes it after X drama
2024-07-11 20:49

Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018. "The database key was never intended to be a secret. At-rest encryption is not something that Signal Desktop is currently trying to provide or has ever claimed to provide," responded the Signal employee.