Telegram is becoming very popular.Maybe not as much as WhatsApp, but enough for the undesirable to sow chaos in an app decide to do it also in their main alternative.

It turns out that Telegram can also be the virus focus for your mobile or computer.Whether you use the app and the PC program, you must be very careaffect their functioning or even useless.

As reported by the Ceck Point cybersecurity firm, the particular nature and operation of Telegram as a platform and as a service favors the appearance of some programs that can sneak into your device and take control without permission and without you realizing.

In the last three months, many attacks have been discovered with a ransomware type virus called 'Toxiceye' capable of stealing information, sending or deleting files, stopping a computer processes, kidnapping their camera, microphone and using them to record image andvideo and you can also encrypt files and then ask for money to unlock them.

Worst of all, it is a virus that chains infections.A Telegram bot (a very popular tool within the application) can infect a person or a chat when entering a chat and getting someone to open a file or even making a call.

To check if you have been infected on your computer, you can check in the directory 'c:/users/toxiceye/rat.exe '.If you have this folder and file on your computer, you will have not only to delete said folder and files, but to investigate with a professional or specialized tools if there are other routes or files or programs affected.The elimination process is not simple.

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