Russians Target Signal Users with Phishing Attacks

A Labor Day message from Nightwing's chief executive went to company staff — and, according to The Register's headline, also to the news outlet itself.

The Register's headline, in plain terms

The item that appears in The Register's Top Stories list is headlined as asserting that the "Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register." Those four elements — Nightwing, CEO, a Labor Day message for staff, and an apparent inclusion of The Register — are the explicit facts communicated by the headline as presented in the publication's Top Stories feed on September 7, 2026.

Where this item sits among other September 7 Top Stories

The Nightwing headline appears in a Top Stories collection that contains a mixture of security, AI, and open-source coverage. Other items listed alongside it include:

• "AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets — AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk"
• "Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands — $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note"
• "Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' — While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often"
• "With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race — AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)"
• "AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit"
• "Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks"
• "Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack"

The juxtaposition places the Nightwing item amid coverage focused on AI models, vendor deals, and security incidents; the Top Stories list itself is the source for these neighboring headlines.

Actors named by the headline: Nightwing, the CEO, staff, The Register

The headline explicitly names four actors or roles: Nightwing; the CEO of Nightwing; Nightwing's staff as recipients of a Labor Day message; and The Register, which the headline says is "apparently" included. The words used in the headline locate the action (a message) with a sender role (the CEO) and two recipient labels (staff; The Register).

Tone and editorial framing visible in placement

The headline's phrasing — using the adverb "apparently" to link The Register to the intended recipients — is the only editorial qualifier visible in the Top Stories list. The collection mixes straightforward technical reporting (for example, product specifications like "576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth") with opinionated or cautionary headlines (for example, "Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands"). Within that environment, the Nightwing line stands as a short declarative item that names actors and asserts a distribution of a message.

Who the headline itself identifies as concerned parties

• Nightwing staff: identified as the direct addressees of a Labor Day message.
• The Register: identified by the headline as apparently included among those addressed or informed.
• The Nightwing CEO: identified as the sender or source of the message.

These identifications come only from the headline text presented in the Top Stories feed; no further details about timing, content, or context of the message are provided in the material available here.

Conclusion — The public record presented in The Register's Top Stories on September 7, 2026, is limited to the assertion that Nightwing's CEO "has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register." That single sentence, placed among technology and security items, names the sender (the CEO), recipients (staff and The Register), and occasion (Labor Day), and nothing in the Top Stories list expands on the message's content or the circumstances of The Register's involvement. The original item is available at: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/07/nightwing-ceo-has-a-labor-day-message-for-staff-and-apparently-the-register/5294819