Posing as employees of the security service of services On the eve of the New Year, scammers began to use another scheme to deceive Russians. Attackers fraudulently obtain the victim's account data, and then change it and become full-fledged owners of personal accounts on various services. Discuss
This was told by the director of the Solar Center inRights of Rostelecom-Solar Dmitry Bondar. About him, in order to deceive, the scammers refer to well-known security rules: at least once a year, you must change the password to enter the service. It is for this reason that scammers become active on the eve of the holidays.
They write a letter or call on behalf of the security service of the service and remind them of the need to change the password, offering to go to the site they need, similar to the official page. After that, the entered password is automatically intercepted, which the attackers subsequently change.
The expert advised to use two-factor authentication for each login to important services. And when he received letters about changing the password, he recommended not to follow the link from the correspondence, but to enter the service through the official application or a search engine.
Source: RIA Novosti