{"id":71624,"date":"2022-12-19T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71624"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:08:49","slug":"massive-telegram-account-thefts-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/massive-telegram-account-thefts-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Telegram account thefts reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, December 16, Russian Telegram users fell victim to a large-scale phishing campaign aimed at stealing access to accounts, according to the Telegram channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/true_secator\/3842\">SecAtor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Victims received messages from trusted contacts about a promotional Premium subscription. After clicking the link, they received a &#8216;activation code&#8217; which actually granted the attacker access to the account.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/QJXQcdNzjo4cB6sza0A1nzJavQbp4W0EgBlyFNp5Eh5d3DGZ7AhrvIh1i3kls8PPe-opPW5ZQhcJCXnoMABTZHzccOmn15QUIkgeUnwk7bRSwBXK3gihGZhljz8lPGbkdSiNP5AiiCiEsS98GZEYzHQASjwSvYYeQmOED8gSnx545sPmCDmwbZgt8NQzxQ\" alt=\"Massive Telegram account thefts\"\/><figcaption>Data: screenshot of a private Telegram message.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The phisher subsequently sent similar messages to all of the victim&#8217;s contacts and removed them from the sent list.<\/p>\n<p>A similar attack was reported in WhatsApp, according to SecAtor.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data indicate that accounts without two-factor authentication were compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Victims are advised to terminate sessions on other devices via Telegram settings, change their password and enable 2FA immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that the Telegram administration began <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/yanluowang-hackers-breach-telegram-premium-cancellations-and-other-cybersecurity-events\">to disable Premium subscriptions<\/a>, purchased from third parties. The scheme to sell them outside the official bot was organized by three Moscow schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 Bitcoin news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Telegram users were victims of a large-scale phishing campaign aimed at stealing access to accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,723],"class_list":["post-71624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71626,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71624\/revisions\/71626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}