• FireScam is an information stealing malware with spyware capabilities.
  It is distributed as a fake ‘Telegram Premium’ APK via a phishing website hosted on the GitHub.io domain, mimicking the RuStore app store.
• The phishing website delivers a dropper that installs the FireScam malware disguised as the Telegram Premium application.
• The malware exfiltrates sensitive data, including notifications, messages, and other app data, to a Firebase Realtime Database endpoint.
• FireScam monitors device activities such as screen state changes, e-commerce transactions, clipboard activity, and user engagement to gather valuable information covertly.
• Captures notifications across various apps, including system apps, to potentially steal sensitive information and track user activities.
• It employs obfuscation techniques to hide its intent and evade detection by security tools and researchers.
• FireScam performs checks to identify if it is running in an analysis or virtualized environment.
• The malware leverages Firebase for command-and-control communication, data storage, and to deliver additional malicious payloads.
• Exfiltrated data is temporarily stored in the Firebase Realtime Database, filtered for valuable content, and later removed.
• The Firebase database reveals potential Telegram IDs linked to the threat actors and contains URLs to other malware specimens hosted on the phishing site.
• By exploiting the popularity of messaging apps and other widely used applications, FireScam poses a significant threat to individuals and organizations worldwide.

Telegram reveals that the communications platform has fulfilled 900 U.S. government requests, sharing the phone number or IP address information of 2,253 users with law enforcement.

Introduction Telegram, as previously reported by KELA, is a popular and legitimate messaging platform that has evolved in the past few years into a major platform for cybercriminal activities. Its lack of strict content moderation has made the platform cybercriminals’ playground. They use the platform for distribution of stolen data and hacking tools, publicizing their […]

Les services de l’Assemblée nationale ont alerté l’ensemble des députés après le piratage.

Self-contained HTML phishing attachment using Telegram to exfiltrate stolen credentials, Author: Jan Kopriva

App swears there’s no way for law enforcement to track users’ identities.

In an update to its privacy policy, Telegram says it will now share IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in response to valid orders. The change is a dramatic switch for the social network app, which has become a hotbed for criminals.

• Restrictions apply only to official devices, not personal phones
• Telegram heavily used in Ukraine and Russia since 2022 invasion
• Budanov: Issue of Telegram is a matter of national security

Hackers, fraudsters, and drug dealers are all leaving the platform in one way or another. Some are worried that Telegram may start providing user data to the authorities.

The arrest of Telegram’s chief executive in France has ignited a debate about moderation on his app.
About nine months ago while researching a story, I found myself added to a large Telegram channel which was focused on selling drugs.
I was then added to one about hacking and then one about stolen credit cards.
I realised my Telegram settings had made it possible for people to add me to their channels without me doing anything. I kept the settings the same to see what would happen.

• Durov's arrest marks a shift in dealing with tech chiefs
• Brousse's unit goes after its biggest ever target
• Legal experts question the prosecution's argument

The investigation into Telegram boss Pavel Durov that has fired a warning shot to global tech titans was started by a small cybercrime unit within the Paris prosecutor's office, led by 38-year-old Johanna Brousse.
The arrest of Durov, 39, last Saturday marks a significant shift in how some global authorities may seek to deal with tech chiefs reluctant to police illegal content on their platforms.
The arrest signalled the mettle of the J3 cybercrime unit, but the true test of its ambitions will be whether Brousse can secure a conviction based on a largely untested legal argument, lawyers said.

Telegram is vital to hacktivist groups and their operations. They would have limited platforms to operate on without Telegram, they try X but are often shut-down and they would likely get drowned out if they tried to operate on underground forums.

Arrest warrants for Pavel and Nikolai Durov were issued months earlier than previously known.

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Ces dernières heures, plusieurs sites français disent avoir été visés par des attaques informatiques. A l’origine de ces actions : des petits groupes de hackeurs qui réclament la libération du patron de Telegram.

When Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on August 24, French authorities did not respond to requests for comment. The

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The messaging app says “it is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform” after CEO Pavel Durov was arrested by French authorities.

• Check Point Research (CPR) recently uncovered Styx Stealer, a new malware capable of stealing browser data, instant messenger sessions from Telegram and Discord, and cryptocurrency. Even though it only recently appeared, it has already been noticed in attacks, including those targeting our customers.
• The developer of Styx Stealer was found to be linked to one of Agent Tesla threat actors, Fucosreal, who was involved in a spam campaign also targeting our customers.
• During the debugging of Styx Stealer, the developer made a fatal error and leaked data from his computer, which allowed CPR to obtain a large amount of intelligence, including the number of clients, profit information, nicknames, phone numbers, and email addresses, as well as similar data about the actor behind the Agent Tesla campaign.

A Telegram for Android zero-day vulnerability dubbed 'EvilVideo' allowed attackers to send malicious Android APK payloads disguised as video files.