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Researchers publish post-quantum upgrade to the Signal protocol

September 7, 2022

PQShield published a white paper that lays out the quantum threat to secure end-to-end messaging and explains how post-quantum cryptography (PQC) can be added to the Signal …

0ktapus: Twilio, Cloudflare phishers targeted 130+ organizations

August 25, 2022

Group-IB has discovered that the recently disclosed phishing attacks on the employees of Twilio and Cloudflare were part of the massive phishing campaign that resulted in …

1,900 Signal users exposed following Twilio breach

August 16, 2022

The attacker behind the recent Twilio data breach may have accessed phone numbers and SMS registration codes for 1,900 users of the popular secure messaging app Signal. …

Bugs in Signal, other video chat apps allowed attackers to listen in on users

January 21, 2021

Bugs in several messaging/video chat mobile apps allowed attackers to spy on targeted users’s surroundings. The vulnerabilities – in Signal, Google Duo, Facebook …

Mobile messengers expose billions of users to privacy attacks

September 17, 2020

Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to …

Cybercriminals are using IM platforms as marketplaces

June 26, 2020

Cybercriminals are increasingly using IM platforms like Telegram, Discord, Jabber, WhatsApp, IRC and others to advertise and sell their goods and services, IntSight …

Signal fixes location-revealing flaw, introduces Signal PINs

May 21, 2020

Signal has fixed a vulnerability affecting its popular eponymous secure communications app that allowed bad actors to discover and track a user’s location. The non …

Amazon to kill off censorship-foiling domain fronting option

May 2, 2018

Secure messaging services and other privacy-oriented tools that rely on domain fronting to foil censorship efforts by various countries have been dealt a severe blow in the …

Skype users are finally getting end-to-end encryption

January 12, 2018

The move was announced on Thursday by Open Whisper Systems, the software organization behind the open source Signal Protocol, which has been implemented by Microsoft to offer …

WhatsApp, Signal group chats not as secure as users might believe

January 11, 2018

Researchers have discovered flaws in the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema messaging apps handle secure (encrypted) group communication, which could result in unauthorized …

Use of digital privacy tools increased in wake of Trump’s ascent to power

April 5, 2017

Since Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of global online and communications surveillance, the issue of privacy of online browsing habits and digital …

Secure comms app Signal now offers encrypted video calls

February 15, 2017

Users of secure chat and voice call app Signal will soon be able to enjoy the option of encrypted video calls. For the moment, only calls between Signal users who have both …

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