FBI Extracts Deleted Signal Messages from iPhone Notification Database

2026-04-23T19:23:45Z21383016135f60fdad486474d90596d6031433324c7ab1067374efa80fd4568b
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What happened

Collection of Schneier posts covering multiple high-risk privacy and security developments: the FBI successfully forensically extracted deleted Signal message content from an iPhone’s push-notification database (showing that message previews and device-level artifacts can leak supposedly deleted secure-messaging content); ICE’s admitted use of Israeli Graphite spyware; Mexican firm Grupo Seguritech’s expansion into the U.S. surveillance market; Anthropic’s Mythos AI which reportedly identified large numbers of zero-day vulnerabilities (access restricted under Project Glasswing); and research/報

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2026-04-23T19:23:45Z
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