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India's Telegram ban hit the UAE too. Here's how to get around it

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STIX ID: report--d6f2b36a-9ae9-5724-8b03-acd94b61142a

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
40/100

Date Published: 2026-06-17

Date Updated: 2026-06-17

Author: Ax Sharma

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India temporarily restricted Telegram after leaked NEET exam materials were sold and shared on the platform; the domestic block coincided with a BGP route leak (AS18101) that caused Telegram outages beyond India. Authorities also ordered disabling Telegram's message-editing feature to prevent backdating of posts, while analysts confirmed the routing anomaly but found no conclusive evidence of deliberate sabotage; MTProto proxies are noted as a common circumvention method.

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