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The messenger has built clues to help recognize fake profiles before the start of correspondence.
Signal added additional confirmations and training messages to the application to protect users from phishing and social engineering. New tips should help to better recognize fraudulent profiles, especially requests from intruders who pretend to be Signal.
The main emphasis is on fake names. In one of the warnings, the application shows the Name not not tag and explains that Signal cannot check the user names because each person creates a profile and selects the displayed name. Because of this feature, the scammer can put the name Signal or Signal Support and try to look like an official representative of the service.
Before accepting the request for correspondence, the application now shows additional confirmation. Signal asks to receive messages only from people the user trusts and separately reminds that the service will never ask to send a registration code, PIN or restore key.
In the section Safety Tips appeared clues that explain how to recognize a suspicious profile. Signal advises not to respond to chats that pretend to be the messenger himself, check the name and photo of the sender, pay attention to the note of Name not verified, and also be careful with blurred messages, financial advice and suspicious links.
A separate warning explains that attackers can create fake names and use a familiar appearance of a profile to evoke trust. Therefore, Signal repeats a simple principle: messages from profiles that pretend to be Signal or support for Signal do not require an answer.
Signal said that there will be additional changes ahead. While the update comes down to new confirmations, training messages and in-app hints that help to notice the fraudulent profile before the start of correspondence.
Signal added additional confirmations and training messages to the application to protect users from phishing and social engineering. New tips should help to better recognize fraudulent profiles, especially requests from intruders who pretend to be Signal.
The main emphasis is on fake names. In one of the warnings, the application shows the Name not not tag and explains that Signal cannot check the user names because each person creates a profile and selects the displayed name. Because of this feature, the scammer can put the name Signal or Signal Support and try to look like an official representative of the service.
Before accepting the request for correspondence, the application now shows additional confirmation. Signal asks to receive messages only from people the user trusts and separately reminds that the service will never ask to send a registration code, PIN or restore key.
In the section Safety Tips appeared clues that explain how to recognize a suspicious profile. Signal advises not to respond to chats that pretend to be the messenger himself, check the name and photo of the sender, pay attention to the note of Name not verified, and also be careful with blurred messages, financial advice and suspicious links.
A separate warning explains that attackers can create fake names and use a familiar appearance of a profile to evoke trust. Therefore, Signal repeats a simple principle: messages from profiles that pretend to be Signal or support for Signal do not require an answer.
Signal said that there will be additional changes ahead. While the update comes down to new confirmations, training messages and in-app hints that help to notice the fraudulent profile before the start of correspondence.
