Researcher earns $2,000 for unmasking flaw Back to school soon – for script kiddies as well as normal kids. Hackers peddle cybercrime e-classes via Telegram
Telegram has paid out a €2,000 bounty to a researcher who uncovered a vulnerability that caused the messaging app to expose users' IP addresses. The programming blunder has been fixed in the latest version. Dhiraj Mishra took credit for the discovery and reporting of CVE-2018-17780, a vulnerability in the Windows and tdesktop (GitHub) versions of Telegram that, under specific settings, would allow a user to view the IP address of anyone they call. Mishra told The Register the flaw stems from T...