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Telegram is becoming an essential platform for cybercriminal activities, crooks use it but and sell any kind of stolen data and hacking tools. Many experts believe that the popular Telegram app is an efficient alternative to dark web marketplaces, its channels are used by hacking communities and cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data, accesses […] The post Telegram is becoming the paradise of cyber criminals appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Finding the Location of Telegram Users

Published: 2021-01-14 12:08:27

Popularity: 46

Author: Bruce Schneier

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🤖: ""Tracking down""

Security researcher Ahmed Hassan has shown that spoofing the Android’s “People Nearby” feature allows him to pinpoint the physical location of Telegram users: Using readily available software and a rooted Android device, he’s able to spoof the location his device reports to Telegram servers. By using just three different locations and measuring the corresponding distance reported by People Nearby, he is able to pinpoint a user’s precise location. […] A proof-of-concept video the researcher sent to Telegram showed how he could discern the address of a People Nearby user when he used a free GPS spoofing app to make his phone report just three different locations. He then drew a circle around each of the three locations with a radius of the distance reported by Telegram. The user’s precise location was where all three intersected...

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Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files You Receive Via WhatsApp and Telegram

Published: 2019-07-16 09:31:05

Popularity: 9509

Author: noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)

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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 demonstrated multiple interesting attack scenarios against WhatsApp and Telegram Android apps, which could allow malicious actors to spread fake news or scam users into sending payments to wrong accounts.

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Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

Published: 2019-03-14 10:47:59

Popularity: 12637

Author: noreply@blogger.com (Mohit Kumar)

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encrypted chat

encrypted messages

encrypted Messenger

end-to-end encryption

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Secure Messenger

Telegram Messenger

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 platforms. While the outage was quite troubling both for the social media giant and its millions of users, guess who benefits the most out of

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