Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks

Source: TechCrunch

Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On May 27, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers pretend to be the app’s support team and warn the target that their backed-up chats and media are “at risk of permanent loss due to a sync issue.” To avoid that, the message said, the target needs to share the recovery key that is used to access their online backups in the chat with the hackers. While there have been several campaigns of hackers impersonating Signal support in recent months, this is a new type of attack because it specifically targets backups, which can contain a victim’s older chats, photos, and documents. Full Story