Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year.

The messaging app’s popularity has soared during the war with Russia, leading Ukrainian officials to increasingly weigh Telegram’s upsides against its security risks. The messaging app’s popularity ...

Telegram scammers are only getting smarter, and filtering out potential fraudsters from your legitimate contact list isn’t easy. Questions relating to Telegram’s safety have swirled around the ...

Telegram will now share users' phone numbers and IP addresses with law enforcement if they are found to be violating the platform's rules following a valid legal request. According to a newly updated ...

For millions of people, Telegram is like any other social media or messaging app. In Brazil, 167,000 people subscribe to a Telegram channel for news about reality shows and entertainment. More than ...

Pavel Durov has started changing Telegram following his arrest in France last month and says he’s trying to make moderation ‘a point of praise.’ Pavel Durov has started changing Telegram following his ...

Telegram is a secure messaging app that launched in 2013. The platform offers end-to-end encryption on video, text, and audio messages, providing a bit more protection than your average messaging app, ...

The arrest in France of Telegram frontman Pavel Durov may have created a political storm between France and Russia, but it has also thrust his rogue messenger into the headlines—new installs are now ...

Before Telegram’s CEO was arrested in France, the app had gained a reputation for ignoring advocacy groups fighting child exploitation. Three of those groups, the U.S.-based National Center for ...

Senior writer at Forbes covering cybercrime, privacy and surveillance. Jim Cole, a recently-retired DHS Homeland Security Investigators (HSI) child exploitation investigator, said platforms like ...

As the Democratic National Convention (DNC) is set to kick off in Chicago Aug. 19-22, a Telegram-based bot service called "IntelFetch," has been aggregating compromised credentials linked to the DNC ...

Timofey Sozaev left Russia in September 2019. After nearly 20 years as an LGBTQ+ rights activist, cofounding several organizations, he found out, while visiting friends in the United States, that the ...