{"id":516,"date":"2025-02-19T07:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=516"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:06:10","slug":"hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-feature-to-hijack-accounts-via-malicious-qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-feature-to-hijack-accounts-via-malicious-qr-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit Signal&#8217;s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is the abuse of the app&#8217;s legitimate &#8216;linked devices&#8217; feature that enables Signal to be used on multiple devices concurrently,&#8221; the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/threat-intelligence\/russia-targeting-signal-messenger\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a report.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-feature-to-hijack-accounts-via-malicious-qr-codes\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices.html?m=1\">Hackers Exploit Signal&#8217;s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Hackers Exploit Signal&#8217;s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. &#8220;The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is the abuse of the app&#8217;s legitimate &#8216;linked devices&#8217; feature that enables&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[40,45,9],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-vulnerability","tag-40","tag-initial-access","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}