Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s various citizenships add to the mystery of his detention. The first preliminary charge against him was for ‘’complicity in managing an online platform to allow illicit transactions by an organized group,’’ a crime that can lead to sentences of up to 10 years in prison and 500,000 euro fine, the prosecutor …

All this primarily happened on Telegram, “which has emerged as a critical source of sensemaking, war-related information operations, and a key recruitment platform for volunteer cyber “armies” in the conflict,” wrote Mandiant researchers. UNC3810 and CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn’s Links to the GRU.

CIA Launches Telegram Channel. On Monday, for the first time, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established a presence on Telegram to reach individuals in countries who have no access to other social media or independent media.

The FSB (the Russian Federal Security Service) subsequently ordered Telegram to assist in decrypting the communications of specific users suspected of engaging in terrorism-related activities.

In his interview with Carlson, Durov claimed that at one point, the FBI — which played a key role in the Anom operation — attempted to convince Telegram to include a surveillance backdoor.

The European Court of Human Rights made a ruling in a long-running case involving Telegram’s encrypted messaging.

Days on from the weekend arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France, the tech industry is still trying to make sense of what this event means for the future of app privacy. To Durov …

The Kremlin is trying to calm fears that the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France could upend the messaging platform, which is extremely popular in Russia and plays a key role in …

Pavel Durov was charged in France, as part of wide-ranging investigation into criminal activities on the messaging platform he runs.

What We Know About the Telegram Founder’s Arrest Pavel Durov was charged in France, as part of wide-ranging investigation into criminal activities on the messaging platform he runs.