Archive: https://archive.today/Ku16H From the post: >>Signal has introduced new in-app confirmations and warning messages as additional safeguards against phishing and social engineering attempts that could lead to various forms of fraud. The purpose is to introduce enough friction that users get the time to evaluate the safety of an external request. Recently, there have been attacks targeting high-profile users with bogus ‘Signal Support’ alerts, as highlighted by the FBI, the Dutch government, and the German authorities. All incidents were attributed to Russian state-sponsored hackers, who abused the Linked Device feature to gain access to the target’s account, chats, and contacts lists.