It depends how you will use telegram to be safe from hacks. You can be hack on any social media chat apps if you always clicking random links send by random user especially those who DM at most. You can set your telegram account private and auto block all those DM with links and never click any links that you will see on group chat. Just click it if it's coming from an official telegram account. You don't need to be afraid when using Telegram, Just be cautious and avoid clicking links as much possible because this what typically hackers do to scam on TG.

You need to be careful and very attentive, because scammers are constantly coming up with new ways of deception. In the telegram settings, you need to disable the automatic download and installation of programs, because in this way you can install a malicious program that will give scammers access to your wallets. Never be in a hurry, always check and think a few times.

Less incidents on fb and ig? But, how come when facebook and instagram are two of the most famous social media platforms today? Hackers go on a place where its crowded because its going to be easy for them to get a victim. Telegram is also a famous messaging platform and crypto people are using this the most, no wonder why this was invaded by the crypto hackers and not to mention that the amount of spam on this messaging app is too much but that can be fixed.

You can also follow what is posted by the op and you will have a less fear of using telegram. Having a spare device is helpful and you must separate your main device where you store you crypto wallets and other important stuffs.

Participants in such cryptocurrency forums are primarily the target of such hacker attacks, because if we use such forums and participate in bounty campaigns that are located in them, then we have cryptocurrency wallets on our devices. If earlier hackers hunted for various information, then during the period of growth of cryptocurrency, they also got a good material incentive for their activities. Therefore, we need to be especially careful with our privacy.

So when you click on a link sent by someone, you are at risk then?  What about things like discord?  Such as imagine you want to join a discord group and someone gives you the link to the group?  Now assuming when you click on it and its the actual group... is it possible you get hacked just for clicking that link because even though it gets you to the group, it still gives malware?

Really bad how these hackers keep on coming up with new tricks on how they can go about scamming people. I always make sure to avoid anything that will lead into having problem with any of these scammers online. Always being careful with social media and the type of information I leave online, because if you are not careful on how you’re leaving information online that’s how they would be able to get you. So, it’s very important that we are aware of what we are doing online and know the things that we have to avoid.

I have always thought that having a different device for you wallet authentications is always best this way we can keep all of our login details away from the our other social media devices. I however understand that it is really difficult to get away from all this scammers trying everything possible to get access to crypto wallets.

don't use tg which is best safe

Thanks for reporting, I use telegram a lot and I've always kept the automatic media download option disabled.  I can't tell you how they can hack you but lately there are too many scams on the platform, be careful and immediately block anyone who contacts you privately.

Unfortunately, these things are very common, but for the first time I hear that they are also on Telegram. It is necessary to disable the automatic download feature, whether in Telegram or others, this is very dangerous.
But I did not know what kind of wallets were targeted by the virus exactly, there are many versions of Telegram on Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone, I am using the version of Telegram for Windows desktop and I have an Electrum wallet installed on the Windows system, so I do not know if this virus can target this wallet?