Russia’s Kaspersky Lab finds Telegram using malware

MOSCOW, Nov 8 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Kaspersky Lab has revealed the first malware that cypher text and graphic files and uses popular messenger Telegram to communicate with perpetrators, who demand a 5,000 ruble ransom from users, the antivirus genius said Tuesday in a statement.

“If you fall victim of the encoder, we are asking you not to pay the fraudsters. You can address our support service and we’ll help you to decipher the files. We see that threat from decoders is growing quickly. That is why we are doing our best to help users tackle the issue,” Fyodor Sinitsyn, senior antivirus analyst at Kaspersky Lab, said.

Telegram’s bot cyphers messages. The malware’s creators received a unique token, exploited to authorize users and secure messages, from the messenger’s servers.

(63.9074 rubles – U.S. $1)

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