I have joined some Telegram groups before. When you joined or if you post on the group, you will see some scammers that will send you message to chat with you. Convincing you that they are working in group and the project. But they are all scammers. What I noticed before was that they will give you a fake link and tell you to connect your wallet. If you connect your wallet, I am not sure maybe you will still be the one that will make payment into the scammers address, but I do not think so because victims complained that all the money on their wallet are stolen with the Telegram scam.
So I do not know if this malware is truly new or not, but it is worth knowing. Although, it is just like before, if you avoid the fake Telegram groups, you will avoid the malware. Scam Sniffer posted on X that the malware is through a bot. And that it can compromise your crypto wallets and your device.
I don't think it is wise to connect wallet to any platform provided by some random people via dm, that is risky and often end in tears. If you have been active in cryptocurrency, it is not really complicated to know a scammer from the first few words that will come out of him. Whenever I receive a random DM, the first thing that comes to me mind is that I'm being confronted by a scammer. It will take the person convincing me to thin other wise and I will be very attentive to the tone of the conversation as well as the logic so I will be able to spot a red flag which scammers never fail to drop.