Alexander Zakharov, Dean of the Faculty of Information Technologies at Synergy University, told about simple rules of cyber hygiene to avoid becoming a victim of fraudsters.
A new ...ual extortion scheme has recently become more frequent on the Internet: fraudsters use personal information of their victims to intimidate them by accusing them of infidelity.Новости СМИ2
In a conversation with the RuNews24.Ru agency on Monday, September 23, a specialist pointed out that the topic of infidelity is attractive to scammers, as the victim always risks the destruction of family life or life with a partner. In addition, there may be a risk of compromising a career.
According to Zakharov, attackers send out emails saying that they have secret compromising photos and to avoid leaking them, the victim is asked to transfer several tens/hundreds/thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.
"In 95% of cases, such emails are fraudulent and have one goal - to force you to click on a link and download a trojan app, or to compromise your email, WhatsApp and Telegram," Zakharov emphasized.
He added that the session could then be intercepted and the correspondence would end up in the possession of the fraudsters. According to Zakharov, such a scheme is characterized by deep elaboration of information and profile of a potential victim.
Zakharov emphasized that nowadays every network user leaves his digital footprint almost everywhere. To the basic principles of cyber hygiene specialist referred to the use of incognito mode when working in a browser in an unfamiliar place, notes 360.ru. You should also leave less personal data. In addition, he advised to use complex, unique passwords and two-factor authentication to protect accounts. In addition, one should be cautious about suspicious links and attachments, not to connect to public unprotected Wi-Fi networks, RT writes.