However, Telegram says there was no security flaw in the bot API. The firm says in a blog posted on January 17: “We just got alerted to a new instance of the old ‘if I had your keys, I could ...

The packages contained an __init__.py file that harboured malicious code, designed to search for files with the .py, .php,.zip, .png, .jpg and .jpeg extensions in the root and DCIM folders, and ...

Messaging platform Telegram is powering up on the chatbot front, with the launch of what it dubs a "bot-powered gaming platform" -- in a bid to try to drive more engagement via addictive new features.

Telegram Messenger is quite popular, more than you might think. It’s not yet on the same level as WhatsApp due to only amassing 550 million monthly users, and 55 million daily users on a ...

Initially, he worked out how to turn on and off LEDs from his cell phone: he sent commands from the phone through the Telegram bot API, to a computer that’s connected over serial to an MSP430 ...

Threat actors modified the legitimate plugin behavior of sending messages to Telegram using the Telegram Bot API by replacing the Telegram API endpoint (https:/api.telegra.org) with their own (C2 ...

The developer behind @my_ali_bot, which lets you browse products on Chinese e-commerce site MyAliExpress on Telegram, says it took him a week to build the bot, which had about 38,000 users in January.

The malicious program then calls the GetUpdatesChan () function within the tgbotapi library, a Golang wrapper for Telegram Bot API, that allows the program to create a Telegram channel and receive ...