Pavel Durov, who is the founder and leader of the project Telegram commented in relation to an official report, "Kaspersky Lab". Recall, the company announced the identification of a serious vulnerability in the program for communication Telegram.
"We have to admit, that antivirus companies often exaggerate the seriousness of identified vulnerabilities in order to attract media attention. So I take this report with a certain skepticism ", – Durov said on its own channel in the messenger.
Besides, he offered to get acquainted with the text of the message, which tells in detail about, what exactly "Kaspersky Lab" found in the Telegram. Post published explaining the channel Telegram Geeks. In this report noted, that damage from vulnerability, the user had to run a malicious file on your device.
"Kaspersky Lab" has found a vulnerability JavaScript-file, which was hidden in the PNG-file.
According to antivirus company, for the last 11 months, This vulnerability has become a trap for 1 000 users. Now there is no problem, and this "hole" qualitatively closed.
