External Transmission
Medium
- Category
- Data Exfiltration
- Content
## Telegram Bot Setup 1. Message [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather), send `/newbot`, get a token — that's `bot_token`. 2. **Personal alerts:** send your bot a message first, then check `https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates` — your `chat_id` is in there. 3. **Channel alerts:** add the bot as admin on the channel, post something, then check `getUpdates` for the channel ID (starts with `-100`). Multiple Telegram notification targets can use the same `bot_token` with different `chat_id`s to route different alerts to different chats/channels.
- Confidence
- 15% confidence
- Finding
- Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
