The cybercriminal service has scammed victims out of $6.5 million and continues to spread on Telegram. A new automated scam-as-a-service has been unearthed, which leverages Telegram bots in order to ...

Banana Gun, a Telegram-based trading bot, was compromised on September 19, leading to major losses for its users. Reports indicate that wallets linked to Banana Gun were drained of over 500 ETH, ...

When the Iranian hacking group APT35 wants to know if one of its digital lures has gotten a bite, all it has to do is check Telegram. Whenever someone visits one of the copycat sites they’ve set up, a ...

A Telegram logo on a smartphone. In recent weeks, more than a dozen Russian entrepreneurs have seen their Telegram accounts hacked, in attacks that may have ramifications for anyone using the ...

Hackers have been found deploying an unfinished Russian malware, written in Golang, that leverages Telegram as its command-and-control (C2) channel. Netskope Threat Labs, the research wing of the ...

So far, at least 36 victims suffered losses amounting to nearly $2 million worth of Ether. Users of the Telegram-based cryptocurrency trading bot Banana Gun have been drained of nearly $2 million ...

A hacker with access to a database of over 500 million Facebook profiles uses a Telegram bot to reveal a Facebook users' phone number or the Facebook ID associated with a known phone number. The hack ...

Cloud-based messaging platform Telegram is a hotbed for pornographic deepfakes, according to a security investigation carried out by Sensity. The analysis describes the end-to-end encrypted messenger ...

Researchers have discovered a “deepfake ecosystem” on the messaging app Telegram centered around bots that generate fake nudes on request. Users interacting with these bots say they’re mainly creating ...