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Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to researchers. When installing a mobile messenger like WhatsApp, new users can instantly … Continue reading Mobile messengers expose billions of users to privacy attacks
In Cuba the telecoms/ISP monopoly, Etecsa, works with the political police to spy on dissidents, journalists and others.
A common attack in Cuba is therefore SIM Swapping which is easy for them. It is also effective in order to eavesdrop o… Continue reading Can WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram be hacked through a SIM SWAP attack?
By Sudais Asif
The technique focuses on using the famous messenger app Telegram for transmitting the stolen payment details.
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In a rare move, the encrypted messaging service is being used to send stolen payment-card data from websites back to cybercriminals. Continue reading Magecart Credit-Card Skimmer Adds Telegram as C2 Channel
In a Telegram public channel, all messages are public, send by the channel creators and contain a timestamp. Suppose I am an ISP. Can I analyse the traffic of all my clients and decide if they are sending a Telegram message? (assume they d… Continue reading Can ISP deanonymize Telegram public channel creators?
The Islamic State terrorist group is reportedly struggling to regain a foothold on mainstream social networks amid tighter controls from technology firms and ongoing attention from the U.S. military. As major networks have stifled the group, it has tried to build a presence on a number of marginal social media platforms, only to be met “by increasing efforts by these companies to bring down content,” the European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, said Tuesday in a report examining the extremist group’s activities over 2019. Telegram, previously the primary source of terrorist propaganda online, according to Europol, said in November that it had removed more than 5,000 “terrorist accounts and bots” during a two day effort against the group, an uptick from the typical average of 200 to 300 removals. Since then, IS supporters have shifted to more fringe services, like the Russia-based TamTam and Hoop Messenger, which is hosted in Canada. Extremists also have […]
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s critics say he hasn’t taken the impact of the coronavirus seriously. The same can’t be said for Brazil’s cybercriminals. As deaths from the virus have surged past 66,000 in Brazil, scammers have set up new infrastructure to dupe people who are desperate for relief, and have set up bank accounts in their names. At a time when even more people in South America’s biggest country are glued to their phones or computers, Brazil’s already-flourishing cybercriminal economy has been busy. “Scam operations have been highly effective in Brazil, from the first announcement of the government assistance program,” Jefferson Macedo, managing consultant on IBM’s X-Force security team, told CyberScoop. IBM has uncovered nearly 700 malicious websites related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, in recent months. The crooks are impersonating government apps used to sign up for financial relief and sending people a flurry of text […]
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Cybercriminals are increasingly using IM platforms like Telegram, Discord, Jabber, WhatsApp, IRC and others to advertise and sell their goods and services, IntSight researchers have found. While traditional cybercrime sources (e.g., forums, black marke… Continue reading Cybercriminals are using IM platforms as marketplaces
New XRY 9.0.2 now released – with support for a brand new app in Photon Auto, plus added support for Samsung Galaxy S, A & J series with Exynos chipsets and support for newer Spreadtrum chipsets.
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In the Telegram API it is stated that Telegram support Perfect Forward Secrecy in their “secret chats”. It is also stated that
official Telegram clients will initiate re-keying once a key has been used to decrypt and encrypt more than… Continue reading Do the Secret Chats of Telegram really support Perfect Forward Secrecy?