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Telegram messaging service hit by massive DDoS attack

It is unclear why Telegram was targeted or who was behind the DDoS attack. The popular privacy-focused instant messaging application service Telegram has suffered a massive DDoS attack in which its service in the United States and several other countries has been disrupted, the company has revealed. The DDoS attack began targeting Telegram’s servers around […]

Telegram Launches Fift: New Programming Language For TON Blockchain Network

Telegram is a popular privacy-focused encrypted instant messaging service. Recently, the messenger platform announced the launch of a new programming language ‘Fift’, created for its Telegram Open Network (TON). According to a post published on the project’s Telegram channel, the Fift language has been specifically designed for developing and managing TON blockchain smart contracts. The […]

WhatsApp Will Never be Safe, Says Telegram Founder

In a direct attack on WhatsApp, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has stated that the Facebook-owned WhatsApp would never be safe. In a statement that he had written on Telegraph Pavel Durov points out that hackers could access anything- photos, emails, texts etc- on any phone that had WhatsApp installed on it. He even discusses the […]

Telegram TON Blockchain Network, a Tor’s alternative, will be launched soon

Telegram instant messaging service will launch a private beta test of your blockchain, Telegram Open Network (TON), reported cyber forensics course experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). Features Telegram Open Network is designed to have superior speed and scalability. First of all, this means you can process millions of transactions in seconds. […]

Telegram vulnerability causes IP address leaking

A security investigator discovered the flaw Dhiraj Mishra, researcher on cybersecurity and ethical hacking discovered a default configuration in Telegram that could expose the IP address of its users when calls are made this way. Supposedly Telegram is a secure messaging application, but it forces customers to use only the P2P connection while they initiate a call, however, this configuration […]

Russia Bans 1.8 Million Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog, banned today over 1.8 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and Google’s cloud infrastructure, the information security researchers said. The following IP blocks have been reported as banned in Russia at the ISP level. The IP ranges account for 1,835,008 IPs. 58.0.0/15 196.0.0/15 194.0.0/15 184.0.0/15 156.0.0/14 192.0.0/12 The number of blocked IPs has […]

Critical Telegram flaw under attack disguised malware as benign images

If you haven’t updated your Windows app lately, now would be a good time. Makers of the Telegram instant messenger have fixed a critical vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting to install malware on users’ computers, researchers said Tuesday. The flaw, which resided in the Windows version of the messaging app, allowed attackers to disguise […]

RedLogin – SSH Brute-force Tools

Red Login: SSH Brute-force Tools. Features: High speed and precision CLI ( Console based ) Run the arbitrary command after the attack is successful ( Default ‘Uname -a’ ) Telegram messanger support for sending reports via bot API Usage: Redlogin.exe (Optional) -telegram ==> List of targets ip list ==> List of usernames want to test ==> List of […]

TeleShadow – Telegram Desktop Session Stealer (Windows)

Stealing desktop telegrams has never been so easy ! Set the email and sender details of the sender and recipient and send it to the victim after compiling. How do I use the session file? Delete everything inside folder at “C:UsersYourNameAppDataRoamingTelegram Desktoptdata” Then Replace Uncompressed files inside tdata folder who resiver from victim to your […]

TELEGRAM-CONTROLLED HACKING TOOL TARGETS SQL INJECTION AT SCALE

A black market hacking tool has the potential to rapidly conduct website scans for SQL injection vulnerabilities at a large scale, all managed from a smartphone through the Telegram messenger. The Katyusha Scanner is a relative newcomer available to black hats that surfaced in early April. It’s a blend of the Anarchi Scanner open source […]

How One Malicious Photo Has The Power To Hack Millions Of WhatsApp Accounts

Short Bytes: The researchers at Check Point recently revealed a new attack targeting WhatsApp and Telegram. The web version of WhatsApp and Telegram could’ve had been hacked using a specially crafted image that directed users to a malicious URL for data snooping. Within 24 hours of reporting, the flaw was fixed by WhatsApp and Telegram. WhatsApp is […]

Researchers Find Vulnerability in WhatsApp and Telegram’s Web Clients

WhatsApp and Telegram have patched their respective web clients against a common security flaw discovered by researchers from Israeli firm Check Point, a security issue that would have allowed an attacker to take over user accounts and spy on conversations or steal user account data. According to researchers, the entry point was an attacker’s ability […]

All-in-one Messenger – FacebookMessenger, WhatsApp, Skype and many more in one window

All-in-one Messenger, a simple Google Chrome add-ons which combines chat and messaging services into one simple application. In this Chrome app we are able to use Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, Google Hangouts and many more.  WhatsApp Skype Google Hangouts Facebook Messenger Steam GroupMe Yahoo Messenger Flowdock Telegram WeChat Discord Tencent QQ XMPP HipChat Wire Mattermost […]

Mega Telegram Hack: Hackers Attacked 15 Million Telegram Users

Short Bytes: More than a dozen Telegram accounts were compromised leading to the identification of 15 million users’ cell number. Two researchers were able to point out this mass hacking campaign being carried out and have hinted the involvement of Rocket Kitten group behind this. The messaging app Telegram is quite popular in the middle-east […]

How To Code Your Own ‘Watson’ AI Bot In 50 Lines Of Code?

Short Bytes: Bots are the new apps and the bot store is the new app store. Combined with AI, bots are becoming more powerful each day and learning to do new things. In this article, I’ll tell you how to use IBM Watson API to create a Telegram speech-to-text bot in 50 lines of code. […]

Secure messaging service Telegram blocks 78 ISIS-related channels

Telegram, the popular instant messaging service that offers end-to-end encryption, announced on Wednesday that they have “blocked 78 ISIS-related channels across 12 languages.” The company introduced channels in September 2015, and presented it as a tool for broadcasting messages to large (unlimited) audiences. “They can have an unlimited number of members, they can be public […]