📋 Tender Overview
Fraudsters are sending phishing links to Telegram users on behalf of the service. This was reported on Monday, January 27, by Alla Khrapunova, an expert in the direction "People's Front. Analytics". As Khrapunova told RIA Novosti, the scammers create a special secret chat in Telegram. In it, they report that a request has been received to delete accounts, and to cancel the decision, users need to follow the link sent. In fact, the link is a phishing one: by entering the login and password for their account, the user independently gives the attackers access to it. According to the expert, this way scammers can gain access to the contact list, personal data, photo, video and audio messages.
Prior to this, on January 24, the Department for Combating Illegal Use of Information and Communication Technologies (UBK) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that scammers were sending malicious software to Telegram, which was used to infect users with a virus, which resulted in the reading of messages and push notifications.
Earlier, on January 22, Sarkis Shmavonyan, manager for work with educational organizations at Cyberprotect, told Izvestia that if unexpected SMS messages with a one-time code from Gosuslugi are sent to the phone, and notifications about logging into the account are sent to the email, and the user himself is unable to log into the account, this may mean that it has been hacked. According to the expert, in order to protect your account from hacking, you need to create a strong password and enable two-factor authentication.
