The support service of the portal “Gosuslugi” has strengthened the protection of user accounts. This was announced on January 15 by the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia.
“The support service of the public services portal has strengthened the protection of user accounts, the data is safe,” the ministry said.
Earlier that day, it became known that a new fraud scheme had appeared through the State Services portal.
Fraudsters call on the phone, pretending to be employees of the portal, and offer to link a QR code to the page of a user of public services. To do this, the attackers send a code via SMS and ask him to call. So they get access to accounts and find out personal data.
The department recalled that the portal employees never call citizens without asking and do not request their data.
Vladimir Ulyanov, head of the Zecurion analytical center, recommended using two-factor authentication to protect personal accounts.
In 2022, for additional data protection of citizens, the Ministry of Digital Development plans to introduce mandatory (by default) two-factor user identification on the public services portal. Experts consider the introduction of mandatory two-factor identification a timely measure that fits into global trends.
Source: IZ
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