Durov's criticism lands in an already charged environment. In January 2026, a class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleged that Meta employees could pull up WhatsApp messages in real time ...

For three and a half years, the messaging platform Telegram has served as the home of a sprawling black market known as Xinbi Guarantee, an anarchic, Chinese-language bazaar offering money laundering ...

Russia’s VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outage, Telegram Founder Says Moscow has in recent months intensified a crackdown on internet use and applications it doesn’t control, as it presses Russians to ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned network defenders that Iranian hackers linked to the country's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) are using Telegram in malware attacks.

MOSCOW, March 16 (Reuters) - Russia has fined the Telegram messaging app 35 ‌million roubles ($432,366) for failing to remove banned content, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on ⁠Monday.

On the World Day Against Cyber Censorship on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) alerted to Russian authorities’ escalating internet censorship efforts following a government block on the nation’s most ...

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Authorities in Russia have opened an investigation into Telegram founder and tech mogul Pavel Durov on suspicion of “abetting terrorist activities,” a sign that the widely used messenger app — deeply ...

News of an investigation into Pavel Durov, the app’s billionaire founder, deepened a crackdown on what remains of the free Russian internet. By Nataliya Vasilyeva Russia is laying the groundwork for ...

FSB chief delivers personal attack on Telegram's Durov Company says Russia is crippling it to force shift to state app MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The head of Russia's FSB security service accused ...

Flare researchers monitoring underground Telegram channels and cybercrime forums have observed threat actors rapidly sharing proof-of-concept exploits, offensive tools, and stolen administrator ...

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