Post #1730625
2026-04-27 20:55 UTC
However, sophisticated attackers have engaged in a harmful phishing campaign, posing as “Signal Support” by changing their profile display name and using social engineering to trick people into handing over their credentials — information that allowed these attackers to take over some targeted Signal accounts. This is something that plagues any mainstream messaging app once it reaches the scale of Signal, but we know how high the stakes are given the trust people place in us. 2/
Replies (3)
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@signalapp@mastodon.world 2026-04-27 20:55
In the coming weeks, you’ll see us rolling out a number of changes to help hinder these kinds of attacks. 3/
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@vinterkarusell@mastodon.online 2026-04-27 21:47
@signalapp you can't secure stupid.
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@rogue_cells@chaos.social 2026-04-27 23:32
@signalapp "Sophisticated"... This is just catastrophic negligence from our arrogant, conservative German government. It really isn't that hard to phish them... Let's hope someone like the FSB won't try. Otherwise, we're so fucking cooked. Thank you @signalapp for making sure that phishing even those people with tech-support fakes will be harder in the future.