Manuel Boll
Manuel is a security researcher driven by a passion to make threat actors’ lives harder. He works as a Cyber Security Analyst at dmTECH and also takes on freelance projects. When he’s off the clock, Manuel solves CTF challenges, writes blog posts for mboll.eu, and relaxes with a beer at the pub while philosophizing about the latest malware.
Session
Over the past year, I collected thousands of Telegram bot tokens from VirusTotal and used them to study how threat actors abuse Telegram. This talk presents insights gathered from this unique dataset and examines how the role of Telegram within the malware ecosystem is changing over time. It also discusses the practical challenges of collecting, validating, and monitoring malicious Telegram bots at scale.