The Top 5 Dark Web Telegram Chat Groups and Channels

As experts in dark web data, the Webz.io cyber team managed to create this overview of the top five dark web Telegram chat groups and channels. We decided to make a list of chat groups and channel for categories like hacking, drugs, racism, financial fraud, and data breaches.  We selected these five dark web groups and channels based on the size of the user base, language, use case, number of daily messages, and year founded.  

The encryption and anonymity offered in chat applications like Telegram, IRC and Discord have encouraged increasing numbers of criminals to flock to them for a wide range of activities. 

These activities include but are not limited to: hacking, or trading malware and discussing security vulnerabilities; trading illegal drugs or prescription drugs; and the trading or discussion of personally identifiable information (PII). In addition, many terrorist discussions and chats with extremist or racist content also take place using these chat applications.  

Even though many of these chat groups, channels, and servers are technically open to the public, they are sometimes only shared in a specific forum or closed community that is geared toward a specific type of audience. The anonymity of the users combined with the often exclusive sharing of information and the scale of the data makes it challenging for law enforcement and security agents to monitor.  A commercial dark web data crawling technology can monitor existing groups of chat applications at scale and also automatically discover new ones through specific identifiers. This includes groups and channels that can be difficult to discover since they are closed groups, forums, or communities. In addition, many marketplaces and forums on the dark web have a dedicated Telegram group. 

But before we continue, let’s give you some background about the chat application itself. 

A Brief History of Telegram

Founded in 2013 after Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing on the United States’ government’s mass surveillance system, Telegram was created with the mission of protecting private conversations and data from third parties (including governments). 

As a result, unlike other chat applications, Telegram has promoted itself as offering full anonymity. This includes the ability to forward messages anonymously and to set up a username while preserving a user’s phone number as private. Not surprisingly, these features make it one of the top chat applications of choice of many criminals. 

Now let’s cover the different chat groups and channels. 

1. Carders [Getbette.biz] – [Dumps][Cc][Cvv][Dumps+Pin][Track2 / Track1+Track2]

Group: Carders [Getbette.biz] – [Dumps][Cc][Cvv][Dumps+Pin][Track2 / Track1+Track2]

• Created: 2017

• Main Language: English

• Statistics: 5,812 members 

• Topics of interest: Financial fraud and carding

Users post daily messages on the Carders group offering to sell or purchase personally identifiable information (PII) that have been acquired through carding, leaked credit cards, bank account information, and money transfers that enable money laundering. Carding is financial fraud that involves stealing credit card numbers, bank account, and other personal information online and using them for money laundering and other illegal purposes. 

Another interesting fact is that the chat group is also related to a credit card shop called  http://getbette.biz. The shop is currently down. 

Here is an example of a post from this chat group related to a full package of individual’s identifying information (including but not limited to credit card information). A credit card dump refers to an unauthorized digital copy of the data on an active credit card, such as the card number and expiration date. Once this data is available to a hacker, it can be used to make purchases. We have covered more about this criminal lingo in our post: Telegram Fresh Fullz and dumps.