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The encrypted messaging app is a haven for politically motivated vitriol, but users are increasingly bringing threats to targets’ doorsteps. https://media.wired.com/photos/6329c23b00704d14b5ffb995/master/pass/Doxing_telgram_biz_GettyImages-1173158197-(1).jpg
On Tuesday, Russia’s state communications regulator said it blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon after it was discovered that messaging service Telegram had been using their cloud services to reach users. The blocking of these IP addresses has prevented internet users in Russia from accessing Telegram, as well as any other service that […]
Enlarge / “Free” as in “censored.” (credit: Carl Court / Getty Images) Early today, Roskomnadzor—Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media—moved to enforce a new Russian federal law blocking the use of Telegram, the encrypted chat and social networking application that has become the favored tool of Russia’s political opposition and […]
Enlarge A Russian court has paved the way for the government to block the Telegram messaging app over its creators’ failure to provide authorities with access to users’ encrypted messages, it was widely reported on Friday. Russia’s state communications watchdog sought the ban last Friday in a lawsuit that asked the court for the authority […]
A district court in Moscow has ordered access to popular internet messenger Telegram to be blocked after the company repeatedly refused to hand over encryption keys to its messages to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). On Friday morning, the Tagansky District Court described the request of Telegram’s lawyers to adjourn the hearings as “abuse of […]
Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) 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 the names of attached files, researchers from security firm Kaspersky […]
Telegram has been busy parrying government attempts to collect user data over the past year, but it hasn’t forgotten its users. It’s ushering in 2018 with a handful of offerings you’ll likely find helpful if it’s your chat app of choice, starting with the ability to support multiple accounts on Android. The latest version of […]
Iran is currently engulfed in demonstrations: many are protesting the clerical leadership, corruption and increasing costs of living, while counter-protestors are trying to protect the regime. And Telegram finds itself caught in the middle. The chat service has suspended the Amadnews channel after it started encouraging subscribers to lob Molotov cocktails at police, breaking the […]
Messaging service Telegram has shut down a public channel that’s been used to organize the anti-government protests in Iran after a government minister said it featured instructions on making Molotov cocktails and taking up arms. “A Telegram channel is encouraging hateful conduct, use of Molotov cocktails, armed uprising, and social unrest. NOW is the time […]
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is facing criminal charges in Iran due to the encrypted messaging application’s popularity with terrorists, child pornographers and other criminal elements, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi has said. Telegram is “providing services to terrorist groups such as IS (Islamic State, formerly ISIS/ISIL), creating a suitable platform for the activities of other […]
