US Admin Signalgate App Hacked In 15min

The US administration's use of Signal for discussing sensitive operations in the middle east was hacked! Officials were using an Israeli Signal clone called Telemessage. According to Micah Lee, this TM SGNL Signal clone app included vulnerabilities including hard coded credentials to communicate - taking only 15-20minutes for an attacker to compromise. The compromise gave this hacker access to all of the contact information, and even the communications message contents in plaintext. SignalGate Update: Not only were officials using Signal to discuss Yemen operations, it now gets worse. They were using a clone of the Signal client which archived all chat communications - It's interesting to see the Signalgate update after recently covering the ghost method for archiving or adding 3rd party to end-to-end encrypted chats. This is where a 3rd party silently joins the chat - we share hypothetical risks depending upon implementation - Florida also has a new law threatening encryption.