For three and a half years, the messaging platform Telegram has served as the home of a sprawling black market known as Xinbi Guarantee, an anarchic, Chinese-language bazaar offering money laundering ...

Russia’s VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outage, Telegram Founder Says Moscow has in recent months intensified a crackdown on internet use and applications it doesn’t control, as it presses Russians to ...

With new outages and blockages, President Vladimir V. Putin is taking his boldest steps yet to control Russians’ communications. By Paul Sonne Valerie Hopkins and Oleg Matsnev Paul Sonne reported from ...

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WhatsApp is throttled. Telegram is about to be blocked. Soldiers are angry. Max, a state-backed messenger app, is being forced on everyone. Commanders warn Max is unsafe. Average Russians are trying ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned network defenders that Iranian hackers linked to the country's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) are using Telegram in malware attacks.

Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a ...

A big new feature update is here for Telegram, bringing some useful features, such as member tags, the ability to turn off sharing, GIF editing, and more. Telegram has received another feature update, ...

Publication of an intercepted cable exposed a clumsy German effort to forge an alliance with Mexico and helped propel the United States into the Great War. Cartoon in reaction to the Zimmermann ...

MOSCOW, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the authorities had recorded a large number of violations by the Telegram messenger app and were taking appropriate steps in response to ...

News of an investigation into Pavel Durov, the app’s billionaire founder, deepened a crackdown on what remains of the free Russian internet. By Nataliya Vasilyeva Russia is laying the groundwork for ...

Authorities in Russia have opened an investigation into Telegram founder and tech mogul Pavel Durov on suspicion of “abetting terrorist activities,” a sign that the widely used messenger app — deeply ...