Is Telegram Really Safe for Activists Under Threat? These Two Russians Aren’t So Sure.

On April 29, two Russian opposition activists reported that their Telegram messenger accounts had been hacked remotely. Georgy Alburov, a leading member of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and Oleg Kozlovsky, the director of the Vision of Tomorrow Center in Moscow, believe unauthorized access to their accounts was obtained through tampering with the app’s SMS login feature. They suspect the Russian government was involved in the hack.

 

What Happened Exactly?

The activists note that, according to the messages they received, the unauthorized access attempts on April 29 were made from the same IP-address in New York. Alburov also noted that the hackers used an unofficial, little-known Telegram command line client, TelegramCli, to access their accounts. For the full article click here 

from hacker samurai http://ift.tt/1W3j27V
via IFTTT