Criminal networks in Southeast Asia are extensively using the messaging app Telegram to facilitate large-scale illegal operations, according to a report released by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC). 

Hackers have stolen sensitive data from Star Health and Allied Insurance, an India-based health insurance provider, and made it publicly accessible through Telegram chatbots, as per a recent report by Reuters. This breach has exposed the private details of millions of customers, according to the report.

Telegram, the messaging app, would address concerns of its content moderation and remove some features that had been abused for illegal activity, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said on Friday.

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the instant messaging app Telegram, was reportedly arrested on the evening of August 24 at Bourget Airport near Paris, according to French media outlets TF1 TV and BFM TV, which cited unnamed sources. Here are some things you should know about Pavel Durov and Telegram.

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was reportedly arrested on Saturday evening at Bourget Airport near Paris, according to unnamed sources cited by the French media outlets TF1 TV and BFM TV.

Telegram, the cloud-based instant messaging app, has recently introduced several new features, including making the voice-to-text transcription feature available for all users.

Working in secrecy for a year, the Telegram messaging service has a plan: to beat Facebook in the race to launch a cryptocurrency with its new project "Gram".

So-called Islamic State group (IS) has shifted its propaganda distribution to the secure mobile messaging app Telegram from Twitter, where its accounts have been repeatedly shut down over the past year.