Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack

Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran.

With the onset of open warfare, Israel reportedly hacked the popular prayer calendar app BadeSaba to distribute messages that, in another era, might have taken the form of pamphlets dropped from planes.

According to Reuters, app users received notifications stating "It's time for reckoning" and urging members of the military to join the opposition to the regime.

The message, it's claimed, was titled "Help has arrived."

Hamid Kashfi, a security researcher and DarkCell founder, in a social media post said the app is an interesting target for reasons beyond its high number of downloads, said to be around 37 million.

"Users of the app are particularly religious people and have [a] higher chance to be also pro-regime and within [the] body of the army," he wrote. "One important but seemingly ...