Hackers have been able to exploit a vulnerability in the Telegram messaging app\u2019s desktop client to earn units of cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash, according to Kaspersky Lab.<\/p>\n
Telegram is one of the most popular messaging hubs used by members of the cryptocurrency community.<\/p>\n
Kaspersky said on its website that users were tricked into downloading malicious software onto their computers that used their processing power to mine currency, or serve as a backdoor for attackers to remotely control a machine.<\/p>\n
While analyzing the servers of malicious actors, Kaspersky researchers also found archives containing a cache of Telegram data that had been stolen from victims.<\/p>\n
The Russian security firm said it “reported the vulnerability to Telegram and, at the time of publication, the zero-day flaw has not since been observed in messenger\u2019s products.”<\/p>\n
Pavel Durov, who founded Telegram in 2013, has been marketing it as a highly secure messaging tool, where traffic is encrypted and difficult to intercept. The positioning helped the service gain popularity among security-concerned users, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Islamic State terrorists.<\/p>\n
Telegram is holding an initial coin offering seeking to raise about $2 billion to create its own blockchain and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n
Hackers have been able to exploit a vulnerability in the Telegram messaging app\u2019s desktop client to earn units of cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash, according to Kaspersky Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":97437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[799,23753],"class_list":["post-248649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-kaspersky-lab","tag-telegram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}