Telegram Zero-Day: Malicious Sticker Crash Explained
On 6 September 2026, researchers publicly described a Telegram zero-day crash. A group owner said a chat they own became unreachable: opening it crashed official clients on iOS, Android, Desktop and Web. A second researcher posted a short recording of a script sending one specially prepared sticker into a test chat. The harm is availability, not account takeover. If the sticker stays in chat history, the crash can happen again every time someone opens that conversation.