{"id":3507,"date":"2025-02-19T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-feature-to-hijack-accounts-via-malicious-qr-codes\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:13:10","slug":"hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-feature-to-hijack-accounts-via-malicious-qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/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":"<p>\u200bMultiple 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\u00a0Multiple 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMultiple 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 Signal to be used on&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/hackers-exploit-signals-linked-devices-feature-to-hijack-accounts-via-malicious-qr-codes\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Exploit Signal&#8217;s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}