Messaging Apps Tapped as Platform for Cybercriminal Activity
Built-in Telegram and Discord services are fertile ground for storing stolen data, hosting malware and using bots for nefarious purposes.
Built-in Telegram and Discord services are fertile ground for storing stolen data, hosting malware and using bots for nefarious purposes.
An account promoting the project—which offers a range of threat activity from info-stealing to crypto-mining to ransomware as individual modules—has more than 500 subscribers.
Telegram is heavily used by both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war for disinformation and hacktivism
The cybercriminals are actively abusing the Telegram messenger for setting up underground channels selling stolen financial details on them and also executing their other illicit activities as well.
A vulnerability in the self-destruct feature on Telegram for Android allowed retrieving deleted media from device cache. Bug fixed.
Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, has revealed that the platform saw 70 million new users sign up during the WhatsApp outage that struck on Monday. WhatsApp and Facebook were offline for several hours.
Nasty macOS Malware XCSSET has once again been updated in order to steal sensitive data from a variety of apps, including Chrome and Telegram.
Security researchers have published details about the method used by a strain of macOS malware to steal login information from multiple apps, enabling its operators to steal accounts.
A flaw in Telegram messaging app could have exposed users' secret messages, photos, and videos
Telegram has fixed a security issue where self-destructing audio and video recording were not being deleted from user's macOS devices as expected.
The cybercriminal service has scammed victims out of $6.5 million and continues to spread on Telegram.
WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, all offer end-to-end encryption, but the features, data access, and advertising policies are different.
Millions have signed up to Signal and Telegram after WhatsApp announced an update to its terms.
New spyware is targeting iOS and Android frequenters of adult mobile sites by posing as a secure messaging application in yet another twist on sextortionist scams. Goontact lures users of illicit sites through Telegram and other secure messaging apps and steals their information for future fraudulent use.
Hackers found impersonating legitimate messaging apps such as Telegram and Threema to infect Android devices with a new malware.
A new Android malware strain has been uncovered, part of the Rampant Kitten threat group's widespread surveillance campaign that targets Telegram credentials and more.
Mobile messengers create privacy concerns by exposing data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts from the address book.
Cybercriminal groups are using new web-based credit card stealer that leverages Telegram messenger to exfiltrate data
Following the COVID-19 pandemic scenario, Telegram has taken an important step that may serve as an alternate to Zoom. Many privacy savvy users may prefer to ditch Zoom for Telegram.
The team behind Telegram has released version 6.3 of the app, making it possible to share files up to 2GB in size, set a profile video instead of a profile picture, among other enhancements.
