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📰Now you can post your ideas for future innovations and bugs found in the new @bugs miniapp. 🪲 For those who are uncomfortable sitting on the site bugs.telegram.org.

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📰 One of the most dangerous Telegram forks has appeared – telega! ⚠️🇷🇺 A Russian Telegram fork recently emerged. It began appearing in Telegram Ads, including aggressive ads after attempting to call another user from the same fork. The name comes from abbreviated slang used to refer to Telegram.

🔍 The channel "bruhcollective." decompiled the .apk file, and here's what we now know:
1. PROXY_ADDRESS leads to VK servers, MYTRACKER_SDK_KEY is a mail.ru tracker (linked to VK), and CALLS_BASE_URL is sent through Odnoklassniki (also linked to VK) (a cherry on top of the MAX messenger).
2. There are ads, also through mail.ru.
3. There's a "proprietary channel blacklist" to restrict users to blogs "undesirable in Russia," and this line isn't in the official client.
4. The client code is partially copied from Catogram*, right down to the variable names.
5. Phone numbers, authorization keys, and a lot of unnecessary data are sent to their servers.
6. The VK Video and VK Clips interfaces are substituted in JS to hide their branding.
7. Icons can be replaced with VK-specific ones.
* bruhcollective owns the Catogram development - @iTysonLab.

❄️ Another danger is that the fork automatically launches their bots and subscribes to their official Telegram channel. This method can lead to account FREEZING, so be careful! Verified by @madrik.

Why did this client appear? There's an explanation. 😠 Simply because the national messenger MAX (also an import-substituting WeChat) failed to lure users en masse from Telegram. This radical approach was chosen due to the revolt against the government's decision to block calls from foreign messengers under the pretext of «fighting fraud» (we covered this), but in reality, more such attacks occur via mobile networks.

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📰 12.2 and new innovations.

1. Repeating messages. It was first encountered only in Desktop 6.2.1. The Premium feature. The function is located when schedule a message that has been redesigned for Liquid Glass. Allows you to repeat sending this message once a day/week/2weeks/month/quarter/half/year. It is unknown in which types of chats it will work.

2. Stream stories. Closed testing. It will be possible to broadcast live in form of stories. You can also comment on live broadcasts. And for those who want to highlight from everyone and pin their message, it will be possible to donate stars for the author. The list (not final) is below:
⭐️ 1-9 — 30sec, 30chars.
⭐️ 10-49 — 1min, 60chars, 1emoji.
⭐️ 50-99 — 2min, 80chars, 2emoji.
⭐️ 100-249 — 5min, 110chars, 3emoji.
⭐️ 250-499 — 10min, 150chars, 4emoji.
⭐️ 500-1999 —15min, 200chars, 7emoji.
⭐️ 2K-9999 — 30min, 280chars, 10emoji.
⭐️ 10K — 1h, 400chars, 20emoji.

📰 Roskomnadzor today conducted exercises to block Telegram and WhatsApp.
🤡 They said that allegedly these platforms became the main ones for fraud/extortion of money, as well as involvement in sabotage/terrorism, while the platforms ignored their requests to take measures to the above-mentioned counteraction.

In order to counter criminals, in accordance with the materials of law enforcement agencies, measures are being taken to partially restrict the work of foreign messengers.

🛜 In particular, among the cities of the Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Adygea were affected; Wi-Fi does not work either. VPN helps to solve the problem.

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