{"id":1026455,"date":"2026-08-05T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026455"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:28:56","slug":"takedown-extortionist-exploited-ai-modified-content-to-trigger-telegrams-app-store-removal-says-ceo-pavel-durov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/05\/takedown-extortionist-exploited-ai-modified-content-to-trigger-telegrams-app-store-removal-says-ceo-pavel-durov\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Takedown Extortionist&#8217; exploited AI-modified content to trigger Telegram&#8217;s app store removal, says CEO Pavel Durov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accused a &#8220;takedown extortionist&#8221; of targeting the messaging platform after its brief removal from Apple&#8217;s App Store, while asserting that the attacker inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. <\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy social media post, Durov said Telegram&#8217;s extensive moderation tools enable it to quickly remove illegal content from public groups, forcing the attacker to resort to a technical workaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], August 5 (ANI): Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accused a &#8220;takedown extortionist&#8221; of targeting the messaging platform after its brief removal from Apple&#8217;s App Store, while asserting that the attacker inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. In a lengthy social media post, Durov said Telegram&#8217;s extensive moderation tools enable it to quickly remove illegal content from public groups, forcing the attacker to resort to a technical workaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026481,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026455\/revisions\/1026481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}