A security research duo told Reuters that they’ve found evidence of encrypted messaging service Telegram’s users being hacked by a group known as Rocket Kitten.
According to Collin Anderson and Claudio Guarnieri, the attackers compromised more than a dozen accounts held by political activists involved in reformist movements and opposition organizations in Iran earlier this year. They’ve also been able to find the phone numbers and user IDs associated with 15 million accounts in Iran, where roughly 20 million people use Telegram
The hack is worrying because it allows attackers to read the messages received by the accounts they’ve hacked, as well as their chat histories.
Anderson and Guarnieri note that Rocket Kitten may have breached those accounts by intercepting SMS codes used to authorize new devices and activating them on their own hardware. For the full article click here
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