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Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2018
Analyzing the Telegram-based Android remote access trojan HeroRAT

Researchers at CSE Cybsec ZLab analyzed shared published their analysis of the Telegram-based Android RAT tracked as HeroRAT. In June, researchers from security firm ESET discovered a new family of Android Remote Administration Tool (RAT), dubbed HeroRAT, that leverages the Telegram BOT API to communicate with the attacker. The use of Telegram API can be considered […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2018
HeroRAT – A totally new Telegram-based Android RAT is spreading in the wild

Malware researchers from ESET have discovered a new strain of Android RAT, tracked as HeroRat, that leverages Telegram protocol for command and control, and data exfiltration. HeroRat isn’t the first malware abusing Telegram protocol, past investigation reported similar threats like TeleRAT and IRRAT. The new RAT has been in the wild at least since August 2017 and in March […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2018
Russian Telegrab malware harvesting Telegram Desktop credentials, cookies, desktop cache, and key files

Cisco Talos researchers have spotted a new variant of Telegrab malware designed to collect information from the Desktop version of the popular messaging service Telegram. Security experts from Cisco Talos group have spotted a new strain of malware that is targeting the desktop version of end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service Telegram. We all know that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2018
Anonymous defaced Russia govt website against Telegram ban

Anonymous collective hacked and defaced the subdomain of the Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) site to protest against the government censorship, with a specific reference to the ban on Telegram. Anonymous hacked the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), the cyber attack occurred on May 10th (Rossotrudnichestvo). The popular collective hacked […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2018
Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide FSB encryption keys

A Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data to avoid being blocked. Bad news for Telegram, a Supreme Court in Russia ruled the company must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data. If Telegram will refuse to comply the request the authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2017
Telegram agrees to register in Russia, but it will not share private data

Telegram agrees to register with Russia authorities to avoid the local ban, but the battle is still ongoing because it won’t share user data. The Russian Government threatened to ban Telegram because it refused to comply data protection laws. “There is one demand, and it is simple: to fill in a form with information on […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2017
Russian Gov is threatening to ban Telegram because it refused to comply data protection laws

Russia threatens to ban the Telegram instant messaging app because the company refused to be compliant with the country’s new data protection laws. The Russian Government is threatening to ban the popular Telegram instant messaging app because the company refused to be compliant with the country’s new data protection laws. Telegram has 6 million Russian users […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2017
Just one picture would have used to take over WhatsApp and Telegram accounts

A single picture could have been used by attackers to hack the popular secure messaging applications WhatsApp and Telegram. Security experts from Checkpoint have discovered a vulnerability that was present in both messaging services. The hack only affected the browser-based versions of both WhatsApp and Telegram. The flaw affected the way both apps process images and multimedia […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2016
ISIS use of Telegram has definitively surpassed Twitter

Telegram is the ‘app of choice’ for ISIS members, its use has definitively surpassed Twitter and other social media platforms. Do you want to investigate ISIS activities, you have to be aware that Telegram is today its privileged channel for propaganda. The use of the popular encrypted messaging app is widespread among the militants of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 11, 2016
Telecrypt ransomware abuses Telegram Messenger’s communication protocol

Telecrypt ransomware is a new malware that abuses the instant messaging service Telegram for command and control (C&C) communications. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new Ransomware, called Telecrypt (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Telecrypt), that abuses the Telegram instant messaging service for communications with command and control (C&C). The Delphi-written Trojan, which is currently targeting only Russian users, it exploits […]