{"id":88484,"date":"2023-12-20T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88484"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:21:30","slug":"in-russia-an-ai-system-named-comrade-major-has-been-created-to-de-anonymize-telegram-channel-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-russia-an-ai-system-named-comrade-major-has-been-created-to-de-anonymize-telegram-channel-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"In Russia, an AI system named &#8216;Comrade Major&#8217; has been created to de-anonymize Telegram channel authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian company T.Hunter has developed an AI system called &#8216;Comrade Major&#8217; capable of identifying owners of anonymous Telegram channels. It is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1622822\/ivan-chernousov\/ii-tut-i-tam-v-rf-sozdali-soft-dlia-opredeleniia-vladeltsev-telegram-kanalov\">\u00ab\u0418\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u044f\u00bb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The AI can gather information from the channel description, its archival copies, posts, and also receives metadata of published files, including messages, sticker packs, uploaded documents and videos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Comrade Major&#8217; has also been trained to analyse data leaks, such as mobile numbers and addresses, and to correlate them with a username or photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Another function is the verification of legal entities by INN. In particular, it provides general information about a company: its age, headcount, charter capital, registered address, and more.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the authors said they plan to train the neural network to study social media accounts, phone numbers, email addresses and cryptocurrency wallets.<\/p>\n<p>To simplify working with the tool, a Telegram bot has been created.<\/p>\n<p>A full version of the program is planned for release in 2024\u20132025. It is intended for government and private organisations that investigate cybercrime connected with anonymous Telegram communities.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, &#8216;Comrade Major&#8217; is undergoing internal testing at the developer.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, Rostec&#8217;s acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/telegram-user-de-anonymisation-exposure-of-north-korean-spies-and-other-cybersecurity-developments\">the software suite &#8216;Okhotnik&#8217;<\/a>, which enables identifying anonymous Telegram users.<\/p>\n<p>The tool analyses more than 700 open data sources, including social networks, blogs, forums, messengers, classified ads, cryptocurrency blockchains, the dark net and state automated services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian company T.Hunter has developed the neural network &#8216;Comrade Major&#8217; capable of identifying owners of anonymous Telegram channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1256,27,723],"class_list":["post-88484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-privacy-and-personal-data","tag-russia","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"84","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88486,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88484\/revisions\/88486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}