Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messaging app to utilize their phone number as a relay for sending ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Messaging app Telegram is offering a small subset of Android users the ability to get a free premium subscription—if they opt into letting Telegram use their phones to send up to 150 Telegram SMS ...

A new Android malware strain has been uncovered, part of the Rampant Kitten threat group’s widespread surveillance campaign that targets Telegram credentials and more. Researchers have uncovered a ...

Russian network operators have begun blocking SMS and calls from WhatsApp and Telegram. This is intended to block the codes necessary for 2-factor authentication (2FA) for new or existing accounts of ...

Telegram claims that it's "taking great care to protect the privacy" of those it's using to relay SMS codes, but contradicts this by admitting that it "cannot prevent the OTP (one-time password) ...