How it started ...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/russian-zero-day-seller-is-offering-up-to-4-million-for-telegram-exploits/

How it seems to be going ... I just received a Windows alert to say my TG is insecure, despite being the latest version ...

https://cybersecuritynews.com/triton-rat-leveraging-telegram/

What the hell is happening ... ??

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/04/01/infostealer-infects-1-million-windows-devices-via-discord-dropbox-github/

well, crap.

Posted by: @driver8

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Sheesh ... I've not had an email from them in years ... but this likely explains the occasional spam actually in my Inbox over these last few weeks (Gmail is usually incredibly good at sending stuff to the spam folder).

Oof ...

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SynthientCredentialStuffingThreatData

https://www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-email-addresses-were-exposed-and-we-indexed-them-all-in-have-i-been-pwned/

So much for not being evil ... some settings for you to turn off.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off