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Dozens of telegram accounts hacked in Russia
If you log on to #Telegram, you usually get a secret code sent to your mobile phone. Only with this secret code you can access your Telegram #account. According to the #security #researchers of the IB group, however, #hackers managed to gain access to these #secret #codes and successfully retrieve telegram chats from a handful of Russian users.
Dmitry Rodin, runs a successful code school in Russia. In a conversation with #Forbes magazine, he now confirmed the incidents. His Telegram account was also successfully #hacked. He told the media that he had received a telegram warning that someone had tried to access his account. Dmitry Rodin ignored the first notification, but there was another warning. Someone from Samara, Russia, had successfully logged into his account. He immediately ended all active sessions except his own.
#GroupIB and Dmitry Rodin are both pretty sure that no #vulnerability in the Telegram Messenger was #exploited to gain access to the affected Telegram accounts.
"Maybe someone logged into my account by intercepting the SMS. This would indicate that there is a problem on the operator's side. This would mean that other accounts that use SMS as an authentication factor are also threatened." (Dmitry Rodin)
Group-IB has been informed about at least 13 such cases so far. The security researchers of Group-IB assume, however, that it will not stay that way. Moreover, they speak of a completely new type of threat for anyone who uses SMS codes to log in.
"This number is likely to increase, however, as it is a new type of threat that is just beginning to spread" (Group-IB)
Most worryingly, both Group-IB and Dmitry Rodin suspect that passwords (OTP) were compromised at one point. If this hypothesis is true, it is a very large security #threat, as this technology is used in many logins and financial transactions around the world.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/12/mystery-russian-telegram-hacks-intercept-secret-codes-to-spy-on-messages
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If you log on to #Telegram, you usually get a secret code sent to your mobile phone. Only with this secret code you can access your Telegram #account. According to the #security #researchers of the IB group, however, #hackers managed to gain access to these #secret #codes and successfully retrieve telegram chats from a handful of Russian users.
Dmitry Rodin, runs a successful code school in Russia. In a conversation with #Forbes magazine, he now confirmed the incidents. His Telegram account was also successfully #hacked. He told the media that he had received a telegram warning that someone had tried to access his account. Dmitry Rodin ignored the first notification, but there was another warning. Someone from Samara, Russia, had successfully logged into his account. He immediately ended all active sessions except his own.
#GroupIB and Dmitry Rodin are both pretty sure that no #vulnerability in the Telegram Messenger was #exploited to gain access to the affected Telegram accounts.
"Maybe someone logged into my account by intercepting the SMS. This would indicate that there is a problem on the operator's side. This would mean that other accounts that use SMS as an authentication factor are also threatened." (Dmitry Rodin)
Group-IB has been informed about at least 13 such cases so far. The security researchers of Group-IB assume, however, that it will not stay that way. Moreover, they speak of a completely new type of threat for anyone who uses SMS codes to log in.
"This number is likely to increase, however, as it is a new type of threat that is just beginning to spread" (Group-IB)
Most worryingly, both Group-IB and Dmitry Rodin suspect that passwords (OTP) were compromised at one point. If this hypothesis is true, it is a very large security #threat, as this technology is used in many logins and financial transactions around the world.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/12/12/mystery-russian-telegram-hacks-intercept-secret-codes-to-spy-on-messages
👉🏼 Read as well:
https://tarnkappe.info/group-ib-dutzende-telegram-accounts-in-russland-gehackt/
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