The Russians were told about a dangerous scheme to hack a Telegram account

Moscow, December 30 – Most modern instant messengers are difficult to hack, but a loophole always remains, so you should be especially attentive to messages in Telegram that come on behalf of a fake notifications profile, a professor of the Russian University of Economics with the name M.G. Plekhanov Pavel Tereliansky.

According to it, the code can be parsed and interfered with – for example, disabling the password verification function. In this case, the victim is notified of the attempted hack and asked to follow a link that would “help protect” the account. After that, access to the account is lost.

Suspicious notifications can be recognized by their status – it indicates that the user was online recently. Tereliansky concluded that Telegram sends real notifications from a profile with the “Service Notifications” badge.