Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned.
On Wednesday, 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.
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