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Telegram entered 2025 under unprecedented pressure. Public scrutiny, regulatory attention, and leadership turmoil forced the platform to do something it had long resisted, enforce at scale. Moderation volumes surged, automation expanded, and millions of channels and groups were removed in a single year. On paper, this looks like a turning point.  In practice, it wasn't the collapse of cyber criminal activity on Telegram; it was an evolution, for sure, but not a collapse.  What we are seeing in 2026 is not a mass exodus from the platform, nor a meaningful decline in threat actor coordination. Instead, Telegram's crackdown has triggered a familiar pattern. Criminal ecosystems adapt faster than platforms can reform. Read the just released Telegram report, by Tal Samra and Or Shichrur for evasion methods, statistics and monitoring recommendations: https://checkpoint.cyberint.com/telegrams-crackdown-criminal-resilience Over 43 Million & Channels Blocked  Tele...

Cyberattacks are already the most significant operational and financial threat to almost every type of business. Surveys of CISOs consistently reveal phishing attacks, identity security, social engineering, and the resulting data breaches and ransomware attacks are the top concerns.  These fears are well founded. Each new day brings fresh headlines of another major breach or successful ransomware attack. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency of the DHS reports that 90% of ransomware attacks begin with phishing. Last quarter witnessed the first individual ransomware loss that exceeded a billion dollars of damages, and a leading news media reported nine new major breaches in a single week.  What is driving this epidemic and how much worse will it get?  The answers are both simple and complex. The simple answer is that this next generation of cyberattacks is being driven by the incredible power and innovation of generative AI, while the ...