{
  "id": 7382391,
  "title": "Telegram Desktop Flaw Lets Hidden JavaScript Exfiltrate Messages From HTML Exports",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/telegram-desktop-flaw-lets-hidden-javascript-exfiltrate-messages-from",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-14T17:58:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/telegram-desktop-flaw-lets-hidden.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A flaw in Telegram Desktop let a bot's message plant hidden JavaScript inside chats that users exported to HTML files, security researchers at ExPatch said in a writeup published on September 12. In Telegram, the message looked ordinary, with a link button, and the script ran only when someone opened the export file in a web browser. It could then copy every message in that file to",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}