On Sunday, January 16, the Gosuslugi portal sent out a warning to users about the increasing cases of account fraud.
The Russians were urged not to tell scammers the code from SMS and gave advice on protecting the account. The warning emphasizes that employees of the public services portal never request such information.
In addition, portal customers were advised to use additional data protection methods – set up a security question and enable SMS login.
The day before, Vladimir Ulyanov, head of the Zecurion analytical center, said that more and more often, attackers are trying to gain access to user accounts on the Gosuslugi portal, using a new fraud scheme for this.
Fraudsters call on the phone, pretending to be employees of the portal, and offer to link a QR code to the page of the Gosuslug user. To do this, the attackers send a code via SMS and ask him to name it. So they get access to accounts and find out personal data, the expert noted.
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 State Services portal. Experts consider the introduction of mandatory two-factor identification a timely measure that fits into global trends.
On January 11, the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia spoke about the emergence of a new telephone fraudulent scheme to deceive bank customers. With the help of voice robots, fraudsters call bank customers and, having gained confidence, lure out information that allows them to make transactions in the customer’s online bank.
Source: IZ
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