Tag: Telegram

WhatsApp Top Among Social Media Platforms Misused By Cyber Criminals: MHA

January 2, 2025 admin

New Delhi: Social media platform WhatsApp followed by Telegram and Instagram remains one of the favourite hunting grounds for online scamsters, as per the latest report from the Union Home Ministry. In the first three months of year 2024, total 43,797 complaints regarding cyber frauds through WhatsApp were received followed by 22,680 complaints against Telegram…

Nation

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Announces New Crackdown On Illegal Content

September 24, 2024 admin

Paris: Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said Monday that the messaging platform had removed more “problematic content”, weeks after his arrest in France on charges of failing to act against criminals using the app. Telegram’s search feature “has been abused by people who violated our terms of service to sell illegal goods”, Durov…

World

Hacker Uses Telegram Chatbots To Leak Data Of Star Health Insurance: Report

September 20, 2024 admin

Representational Image Bengaluru: Stolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after Telegram’s founder was accused of allowing the messenger app to facilitate crime. The purported creator of the chatbots told a security researcher, who alerted Reuters to the issue, that…

Nation

France Charges Telegram Chief Pavel Durov: Prosecutor

August 28, 2024 admin

The chief of Telegram Pavel Durov on Wednesday was charged by the French judiciary. Paris: The chief of Telegram Pavel Durov on Wednesday was charged by the French judiciary with a litany of violations related to the messaging app but allowed to go free while being banned from leaving the country. Durov was granted conditional…

World

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov’s Arrest And Its Widespread Implications For Tech Giants

August 27, 2024 admin

There is also no suggestion that Pavel Durov himself was engaged in making any illegal content (file). When Pavel Durov arrived in France on his private jet last Saturday, he was greeted by police who promptly arrested him. As the founder of the direct messaging platform Telegram, he was accused of facilitating the widespread crimes…

World

Who Is Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO Arrested In France

August 25, 2024 admin

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov left Russia in 2021. Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, French local media said, citing unnamed sources.They said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that…

World

Government Warns X, YouTube, Telegram

October 6, 2023 admin

The government has issued notices to X, YouTube, and Telegram (Representational) New Delhi: The government has issued notices to social media platforms X, formerly Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram to remove child sexual abuse material from their platforms in India, an official statement said on Friday. Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajiv Chandrasekhar said…

Nation