{"id":2105,"date":"2025-02-20T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-html\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:03:27","slug":"hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit Signal&#8217;s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Hackers Exploit Signal&#8217;s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>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.<br \/>\n&#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<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers Exploit Signal&#8217;s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}