Aug. 24, 2023, 12:33 p.m. | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

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A new financially motivated operation is leveraging a malicious Telegram bot to help threat actors scam their victims.
Dubbed Telekopye, a portmanteau of Telegram and kopye (meaning "spear" in Russian), the toolkit functions as an automated means to create a phishing web page from a premade template and send the URL to potential victims, codenamed Mammoths by the criminals.
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