{"id":976450,"date":"2025-11-25T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976450"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:49:33","slug":"whatsapp-groups-run-by-pros-of-telangana-ministers-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/whatsapp-groups-run-by-pros-of-telangana-ministers-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp groups run by PROs of Telangana ministers hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cybercriminals on Sunday compromised a TV channel reporter\u2019s phone and sent APK files to several Telangana Cabinet ministers\u2019 WhatsApp groups that were being run by their PROs to share information with the media. <\/p>\n<p>The hackers renamed the groups as \u201cSBI\u201d and asked members to update their Aadhaar details using APK files. However, alerted admins of the groups removed the victim from their groups and also alerted the other members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cybercriminals on Sunday compromised a TV channel reporter\u2019s phone and sent APK files to several Telangana Cabinet ministers\u2019 WhatsApp groups that were being run by their PROs to share information with the media. The hackers renamed the groups as \u201cSBI\u201d and asked members to update their Aadhaar details using APK files. However, alerted admins of the groups removed the victim from their groups and also alerted the other members.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976450","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=976450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}