{"id":237019,"date":"2026-05-13T02:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/signal-adds-security-warnings-for-social-engineering-phishing-attacks"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:21:17","slug":"signal-adds-security-warnings-for-social-engineering-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/signal-adds-security-warnings-for-social-engineering-phishing-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Signal adds security warnings for social engineering, phishing attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/signal-adds-security-warnings-for-social-engineering-phishing-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose is to introduce enough friction that users get the time to evaluate the safety of an external request.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there have been attacks targeting high-profile users with bogus \u2018Signal Support\u2019 alerts, as highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/fbi-links-signal-phishing-attacks-to-russian-intelligence-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the FBI<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/dutch-govt-warns-of-signal-whatsapp-account-hijacking-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dutch government<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/germany-warns-of-signal-account-hijacking-targeting-senior-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">German authorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}