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👀 Telegram Gift Number System Is Rigged? Telegram researcher and developer @typescriptonit published an investigation alleging that the platform’s gift upgrade system may be rigged after documenting repeated incidents involving prestigious “OG” numbers such as #2222, #3333, #5555, #7777, and others. According to his findings, the target number would briefly become unavailable or appear to not exist, only to reappear minutes later owned by the same user, Tanya, while the surrounding numbers had already been claimed. For example, his script successfully claimed gift numbers #5553, #5554, and #5556, but #5555 disappeared instead of being upgraded, only to appear minutes later under Tanya’s ownership. He also claims that Tanya is married to Artem, a Telegram developer, and alleges that Artem may be helping her obtain these rare numbers through internal access. 💬 Do you think Telegram developers should be allowed to participate in gift upgrades? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🚨 Connor Moucka (“Waifu”) Pleads Guilty Over the 2024 Snowflake Breach Connor Moucka, also known as “Waifu” and “judische,” has pleaded guilty to hacking more than 165 companies in the 2024 Snowflake campaign, including Santander Bank, Ticketmaster, and others. According to court filings, Moucka advertised stolen information from the breaches on forums such as XSS[.]is, BreachForums and Exploit[.]in, and caused more than $9.5 million in losses, excluding revenue from the sale of the stolen data. He now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison and is awaiting sentencing on October 27, 2026. He also faces a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

⚠️ UPDATE: Apple Explains the Real Reason for Telegram’s Removal from the App Store According to Bloomberg, Apple has explained why Telegram was removed from the App Store:

We briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after our review found content that violates our strict guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The app was subsequently restored after the developer promptly removed the content and banned the user who posted it,' Apple tells Bloomberg.

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🚨 Telegram Is Back on the App Store Earlier today, Telegram disappeared from the Apple App Store. According to an Apple Support representative, the reason for the removal was that the app had been temporarily hidden by its developer, possibly to make internal changes or conduct internal testing. Telegram is now back on the App Store, and Telegram’s official X account responded by saying, “Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,” indicating that the situation wasn’t anything serious. Fun Fact: Following Telegram’s temporary removal from the App Store, GRAM quickly dropped by over 5%. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

⚠️ Two French Crypto Millionaires Kidnapped While Trying to Buy Cannabis Two French crypto millionaires in their 20s were reportedly kidnapped in London after meeting with a group they believed would sell them cannabis. Instead, they were kidnapped and tortured for two days while their captors demanded $150,000 in cryptocurrency. The victims were allegedly beaten, forced to strip naked, burned with cigarettes, and scalded with boiling water. One victim was released after transferring $30,000 in cryptocurrency, while the second was reportedly “sold” to another gang. The incident ended after a high-speed police chase that crashed into a lamppost, leading to the arrest of three suspects, aged 18, 20, and 22. 🧐 If you were a millionaire, would you immediately pay the $150,000 ransom? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

👀 Telegram Begins Integrating the Native GRAM Wallet in the Beta Version According to beta testers, Telegram Beta for iOS v12.9.3 has begun integrating the built-in GRAM Wallet and a new MTProto layer for TON (GRAM) that Pavel Durov introduced earlier directly into the app. Telegram has also made a new bot called @tgmfabot, which reportedly will allow users to add an extra layer of protection to their wallet by enabling 2FA verification with their passcode. This is intended to help protect users’ funds even if their seed phrase is compromised. The wallet is expected to fully roll out across all platforms in the next update. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🚨 Estimated Losses From the Coldcard Hardware Wallet Exploit Have Risen to $71 Million The estimated losses from yesterday’s Coldcard hardware wallet exploit have now risen from an initial ~$38 million to approximately $71 million, with more than 1,200 wallets drained. The exploit allowed attackers to brute-force predictable seed phrases generated on vulnerable Coldcard Mk3 wallets. Although the victims’ devices remained offline, their seed phrases were compromised at the time of generation due to a flawed random number generator. This has become the biggest single exploit of July 2026, surpassing June’s Humanity Protocol exploit, which led to $30 million in losses. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🤣 UPDATE: Pavel Durov Changed His Profile Picture Following Russia’s Terrorism Allegations Against Him ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🚨 Russia Declares Pavel Durov Wanted Internationally Pavel Durov has reportedly been placed on Russia’s international wanted list after the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) charged him under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal Code, which covers facilitating terrorist activities. According to the FSB, Ukrainian intelligence services allegedly used the Telegram dating bot “Leo” to recruit Russian citizens aged 12-22 for acts of sabotage, attacks on police and arson. The agency claims that 46 people have been detained in connection with these cases since July 2025. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

👀 Binance Tests Employees with Fake Phishing Attacks Binance’s Chief Security Officer Jimmy Su has revealed that the company has been running simulated phishing attacks against its own employees for the past four years to test their resistance to social engineering. The simulated phishing attacks are run by Binance’s red team, an internal ethical hacking unit whose job is to break into the company’s systems to identify vulnerabilities. Binance’s Chief Security Officer also said that employees who repeatedly fail the tests are fired. 🧐 Do you think this would’ve helped prevent the $1B Bybit hack? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🔒 North Korean Hackers Hacked Their Own Central Bank A criminal ring made up of former North Korean military hackers and elite IT graduates reportedly hacked the internal networks of North Korea’s Central Bank and Foreign Trade Bank to steal state funds for personal profit. The group allegedly stole small amounts of money over time to avoid detection, then converted the funds into cryptocurrency before laundering them through overseas wallets. According to Daily NK, North Korea’s National Intelligence Agency arrested the group on July 12. What will happen to the hackers is currently unknown. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

⚠️ UPDATE: Telegram Has Started Refunding Stars from the Exploit Following yesterday’s exploit involving Japanese accounts and Telegram Stars, Telegram has now fixed the issue and has begun actively refunding both the Stars and the gifts that were purchased using the exploit. Telegram has also increased the cooldown for users who sold their gifts for exploited Stars. Those gifts are being refunded, but the affected users must now wait 27 days before they can transfer them. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🚨 New Telegram Stars Exploit A new exploit has been discovered in Telegram that allows Japanese accounts to purchase 10,000 Stars for just $1.50, even though the normal price is $150. Shortly after the exploit was discovered, many Chinese users began mass-buying expensive gifts with Stars obtained through the bug. However, most of the gifts and Stars are expected to be refunded once Telegram fixes the exploit. Many accounts that abused the exploit have already been deactivated, and using it could result in your account being frozen or permanently banned. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🚨 Lapsus$ Extortion Group Announces Its Retirement The notorious hacking group Lapsus$ has announced its retirement on its official clearnet website lapsus.bz. The group claimed it achieved all of its goals, bypassed the security of multiple organizations, made millions, and is voluntarily ending its operations. It also mocked investigators and the FBI, and said there would be no further leaks or communications from its side.

The group was known for hacking and extorting numerous companies, including Nvidia, Samsung, Microsoft, Uber, Revolut, and Okta. It also gained global attention after one of its members, Arion Kurtaj, leaked early footage and materials from Grand Theft Auto VI during the 2022 Rockstar Games breach.

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😮 FBI Seizes a Telegram Channel for the First Time Ever FBI Director Kash Patel announced today that as part of the Shunda Compound takedown, authorities disrupted a major scam network responsible for stealing over $700 million from U.S. victims. The operation dismantled networks linked to hundreds of millions in losses and included the first-ever federal seizure of a Telegram recruitment channel operated by the scammers. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🚨 Pavel Durov Announces Telegram’s New Built-In Non-Custodial Crypto Wallet Pavel Durov has announced that Telegram will launch a built-in non-custodial crypto wallet this summer. Native Gram wallets will be integrated into Telegram for every user, enabling instant, zero-fee crypto transactions for more than 1 billion users. As a non-custodial wallet, users will have full control of their own funds. This is believed to be step 5 of 7 in the MTONGA roadmap. 💬 Will you keep using Tonkeeper? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🤯 Anonymous Number +888 8 666 Sold for $950,000 The anonymous Telegram number +888 8 666 was reportedly sold today for $950,000. According to the Chinese news channel @hkhk, the deal was completed privately. The same number was previously purchased for $608,400 in March by another Chinese collector, @jing. ℹ️ Fun Fact: If this sale had taken place through Fragment, it would have become the most expensive anonymous number ever sold on the platform. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

🚨 Anthropic Adds Fable 5 to Premium Plans with 50% Usage Limit Anthropic team announced today that starting July 20, its Claude Fable 5 model will be included as a standard feature in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of usage limits. Pro and Team Standard users will keep access through usage credits and receive a one-time $100 credit to ease the transition. Anthropic said demand for Fable 5 was difficult to predict, so it rolled out access to subscribers in stages while adding more server capacity. Demand was higher than expected, so it couldn’t offer unlimited access right away. 💬 Has Codex overtaken Claude in your opinion? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

⚠️ UPDATE: UK National Crime Agency Releases Arrest Footage of Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair The UK’s National Crime Agency has shared videos of the arrests of Thalha Jubair (aka Operator) and Owen Flowers (aka Holy), who stole tens of millions of dollars through ransomware attacks. They both pleaded guilty to the attacks last month and were today sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison each. Authorities say Jubair was also convicted of refusing to provide the PINs and passwords for devices seized from him. 🧐 Do you think they should’ve received a longer sentence? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert

📱 X Will Become Open Source! Elon Musk has officially confirmed that X will make its entire platform codebase open source after the team completes reviewing it for security vulnerabilities. With a fully open-source codebase, users and developers will be able to study X’s inner workings and algorithms, develop third-party tools, extensions, build custom clients and alternative front-ends, create more powerful bots, report bugs, and even use the code for their own projects. Elon Musk had previously hinted that X would become open source, but officially confirmed it today in a post on X. 💬 Do you think making X open source will make the platform better or worse? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @Rainbetcom 🔔 Subscribe: @alert