FBI Extracts Deleted Signal Messages from iPhone Notification Database
2026-04-24T07:23:42Z•998c400346d4dfde5729fb3d7d3792384149dc2f565e30ace8d5a39aec928d64
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What happened
Multiple security and privacy developments: The FBI forensic team was able to recover deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting content stored in the device’s push/notification database, highlighting risks from notification previews and the need to enable Signal’s notification-content-blocking setting. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has admitted use of Graphite spyware (Israeli vendor) for surveillance. Mexican firm Grupo Seguritech is expanding surveillance capabilities into the U.S. Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos Preview reportedly identified thousands of new
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