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Hackers target Telegram accounts through voicemail backdoor
2019-07-30 13:39

As politicians should know by now, secure messaging apps such as Telegram can quickly become a double-edged sword.

WhatsApp, Telegram Coding Blunders Can Expose Personal Media Files
2019-07-16 16:50

The issue, present on Android versions, is similar to the known man-in-the-disk attack vector.

Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files You Receive Via WhatsApp and Telegram
2019-07-16 09:33

If you think that the media files you receive on your end-to-end encrypted secure messaging apps can not be tampered with, you need to think again. Security researchers at Symantec yesterday...

Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files Transferred via WhatsApp, Telegram
2019-07-15 10:37

Hackers can manipulate media files transferred by users through the WhatsApp and Telegram messaging applications due to the way the Android operating system allows apps to access files in external...

News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack
2019-06-14 17:57

Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O'Donnell discuss a recent lawsuit against Amazon for its privacy policies, a Telegram DDoS attack and more.

Telegram CEO Fingers China State Actors for DDoS Attack
2019-06-13 15:04

Durov took to Twitter to hint that Beijing tried to take Telegram offline to disrupt the Hong Kong protests.

No Telegram today, protestors: Chinese boxes DDoS chat app amid Hong Kong protest
2019-06-13 15:00

That Guns N' Roses album* might be out soon... or not Chat app Telegram has reportedly been DDoS'd, with its downtime coinciding with protests in Hong Kong against repressive new Chinese laws.…

Telegram Suffers 'Powerful DDoS Attack' From China During Hong Kong Protests
2019-06-13 10:48

Telegram, one of the most popular encrypted messaging app, briefly went offline yesterday for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide after a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack...

Telegram Hit by Cyber-attack, CEO Points to HK Protests, China
2019-06-13 05:02

Encrypted messaging service Telegram suffered a major cyber-attack that appeared to originate from China, the company's CEO said Thursday, linking it to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong. read more

Criminals are hiding in Telegram – but backdoors are not the answer
2019-05-03 10:02

When it comes to an easy life, the criminals behind the fearful Anubis banking malware have become big fans of Twitter and, increasingly, the secure messaging of Telegram.