Telegraph Anonymous blog platform

Telegraph is an anonymous blog platform, a free publishing tool created by Telegram. Although the Telegraph was created primarily as a tool that allows you to share long texts in the Telegram messenger, it is a completely separate service that can be used without a Telegram account.

Telegraph is made in a minimalist style, the pages of the article do not contain any controls. Each article on the site is separate, it is not possible to somehow combine articles into groups or hierarchies. For each article, the author specifies the title and optionally the subtitle commonly used for the author's name. In addition, under the heading of the article, the date of the first publication is indicated, which the author of the article cannot influence.

The ability to format text is also minimal: two levels of headers, single-level lists, bold, italics, quotes, hyperlinks are supported, it is possible to upload an image and video to the page, the size of which should not exceed 5 MB. When you add links to YouTube, Vimeo or Twitter, the service allows you to view their content directly in the article. Article size should not exceed 64 kB.

When an article is first published, the URL is generated automatically from its title, while characters not from the Latin alphabet are transliterated, spaces are replaced with hyphens, and the publication date is added to the address.

2022: Using for phishing campaigns

The Telegraph platform is used for phishing campaigns. This became known on June 1, 2022.

On the platform, you can start a blog or pay a ransom to hackers.

The attackers carry out phishing attacks on the Telegraph anonymous blog platform, creating temporary landing pages to steal accounts. data According to the INKY report cybercriminals , they use the Telegraph to create phishing sites in the form of landing pages or a form of login to the site.

In services email , the platform is not marked as dangerous or suspicious, and attackers use it to conduct phishing campaigns. Phishing emails came from stolen email accounts, so scammers were able to bypass blacklists and - spam lists.

The purpose of phishing was fraud cryptocurrency with or theft of accounts. In data some cases, attackers demanded a ransom for the privacy of the victim's personal data. Fraudsters offered several payment options directly on the Telegraph platform.

Experts recommended that users not trust emails from an unknown sender and always move the cursor over the link before clicking on the link to see where it leads. Also, before entering your credentials, you need to make sure that the site is not phishing. Experts also added that the spread of malicious Telegraph links through phishing emails has increased sharply, as more than 90% of Telegraph phishing campaigns were detected in 2022^[1].

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