knightmare1147@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform.English
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Tldr: Someone can guess reasonably where you are by sending you a glitched friend request notification on your phone that tells the hacker what data center you’re closest to.
It is pretty clever but I wouldn’t call it full deanonymizing, should still get patched though.
good find by the tester.
Edit: used the term ‘glitch’ for simplicity of people reading, didn’t mean to upset people; I’m just an amateur.
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