Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store

Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play ...
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BadBazaar: Chinese Spyware Shams Signal, Telegram Apps

After sneaking into Google and Samsung app stores, “GREF” APT targets Uyghurs and other PRC minorities ...
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Malware Families Love Telegram, Discord as Much as Users

Messaging apps like Discord and Telegram have become a conduit for malware, as their popularity grows among users who want to create and share programs on the platforms. These bots may facilitate ...
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INKY Identifies Telegraph as Platform for Phishing Campaigns

INKY, a provider of an email security platform, today revealed that since the start of 2022, it has detected 1,288 malicious emails sent via Telegraph. Telegraph is a free minimalist publishing tool ...
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How Telegram Became a Critical Source of Intelligence in the Ukraine-Russia War

How Telegram Became a Critical Source of Intelligence in the Ukraine-Russia War

Telegram comes of age Telegram was created in 2013 by Pavel Durov, a Russian tech entrepreneur who has, to a large extent, managed to withstand pressure from Russian authorities and keep Telegram ...
The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots

The Rise of One-Time Password Interception Bots

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That service ...
Telegram Zeek, you’re my main notice

Telegram Zeek, you’re my main notice

Notices in Zeek Zeek’s Notice Framework enables network operators to specify how potentially interesting network findings can be reported. This decoupling of detection and reporting highlights Zeek’s flexibility: a notice-worthy event in ...
Privacy and The Myth of End-to-End Encryption

Privacy and The Myth of End-to-End Encryption

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Former Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello’s leaked messages earlier this month raised many questions for us privacy junkies, including alarm bells about secure messaging applications. We wondered, in light of such a ...
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Telegram App DDoS from China Hinders #612strike Protest

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained denial-of-service attack. The DDoS was traced to IP addresses in China ...
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DDoS attack that knocked Telegram secure messaging service offline linked to Hong Kong protests

An attack which targeted users of the Telegram app on Wednesday might be linked to protests in Hong Kong that turned violent. The post DDoS attack that knocked Telegram secure messaging service ...