Telegram Suffers ‘Powerful DDoS Attack’ From China During Hong Kong Protests

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 hit its servers.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov later rev… Continue reading Telegram Suffers ‘Powerful DDoS Attack’ From China During Hong Kong Protests

Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned … Continue reading Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

Russia asks Apple to remove Telegram Messenger from the App Store

Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has threatened Apple to face the consequences if the company does not remove secure messaging app Telegram from its App Store.

Back in April, the Russian government banned Telegram in the country for the … Continue reading Russia asks Apple to remove Telegram Messenger from the App Store

Hackers Exploit ‘Telegram Messenger’ Zero-Day Flaw to Spread Malware

A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the desktop version for end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app that was being exploited in the wild in order to spread malware that mines cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash.

The Telegram vuln… Continue reading Hackers Exploit ‘Telegram Messenger’ Zero-Day Flaw to Spread Malware

A Company Offers $500,000 For Secure Messaging Apps Zero-Day Exploits

How much does your privacy cost?

It will soon be sold for half a Million US dollars.

A controversial company specialises in acquiring and reselling zero-day exploits is ready to pay up to US$500,000 for working zero-day vulnerabilities targeting popu… Continue reading A Company Offers $500,000 For Secure Messaging Apps Zero-Day Exploits

Telegram-Controlled Hacking Tool Targets SQL Injection at Scale

The Katyusha Scanner can find SQL injection bugs at scale, and is managed via the Telegram messenger on any smartphone. Continue reading Telegram-Controlled Hacking Tool Targets SQL Injection at Scale

Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Russia has threatened a ban against Telegram end-to-end encrypted messaging app, after Pavel Durov, its founder, refused to sign up to the country’s new data protection laws.

Russia’s FSB intelligence service said on Monday that the terrorists who kil… Continue reading Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Russia has threatened to ban Telegram end-to-end encrypted messaging app, after Pavel Durov, its founder, refused to sign up to the country’s new data protection laws.

Russian intelligence service, the FSB, said on Monday that the terrorists that kill… Continue reading Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Telegram Messenger Adds AI-powered Encrypted Voice Calls

Joining the line with rival chat apps WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger, and Signal, the Telegram instant messaging service has finally rolled out a much-awaited feature for the new beta versions of its Android app: Voice Calling.

And what’s interes… Continue reading Telegram Messenger Adds AI-powered Encrypted Voice Calls