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A zero-day vulnerability was discovered by Kaspersky Lab in the Telegram Desktop app that could let hackers pwn your computer to mine for cryptocurrencies like Zcash, Monero, Fantomcoin, and others.
Kaspersky Lab's security researchers say the zero-day vulnerability can be used to deliver multi-purpose malware to computer users using the Telegram Desktop app, including backdoors and crypto-cash mining software.
The security company also discovered that hackers had actively exploited the vulnerability in the Telegram Desktop app, which is based on the right-to-left override Unicode method, since March last year, but only to mine cryptocurrencies like Fantomcoin, Monero, and Zcash.
There was a warning over two months ago about using Kaspersky Lab's security products.
Wired's "The UK's Kaspersky warning is a reminder: data ignores borders;
Should you stop using Kaspersky software? Probably not. But everyone needs to be aware of what borders their data is crossing", https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kaspersky-russian-hackers-th...
Unlikely to be AT ALL applicable to the Telegram Desktop app, but nevertheless mentioned here in connection to Kaspersky.
IMO, it would be foolish not to assume there were back doors in all of the commercial virus scanner products. Either the NSA's in the case of US products or the revelant government agency in their government in the case of non-US products.
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Wired's "The UK's Kaspersky warning is a reminder: data ignores borders; Should you stop using Kaspersky software? Probably not. But everyone needs to be aware of what borders their data is crossing", https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kaspersky-russian-hackers-th...
Unlikely to be AT ALL applicable to the Telegram Desktop app, but nevertheless mentioned here in connection to Kaspersky.