News & Reviews:   Telegram Malaysia

Previously, we reported that Telegram might be planning to launch a subscription plan with exclusive features not available on its regular version. Recently, the new subscription plan was finally revealed and it’s called Telegram Premium.

The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has urged Telegram users in Malaysia to activate the messaging app's ‘two-step verification’ security pin setting. This is following a rampant syndicate that has hacked numerous Telegram accounts in our country since the start of the year.

According to Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Datuk Mohd Kamaruddin Md. Din, the modus operandi of the syndicate is to hack social media accounts and then pose as the person that they hacked. He revealed that a total of 314 cases of online fraud involving more than RM2 million were recorded from January to March 2022 alone.

Pavel Durov, the founder and product manager of Telegram Messenger recently revealed that Telegram will launch paid features in 2021 while current chat features that are free, will continue to stay free... forever. Fear not though, as he has mentioned that the encrypted Telegram Messenger will continue to remain private (so there won’t be any selling of private data, whew), but there may be their own ads platform coming soon.