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In Russia, a surge in attacks of scammers through SMS messages and emails are fixed in Russia, in which attackers warn of allegedly harmful activity in the victim’s personal office on the Public Service portal, they told them RIA Novosti in the Popular Front.
Now we are observing a surge of attacks of scammers in the form of SMS or email letters. They reported either the entrance to the Personal Account of State Services from other devices, or about suspicious activity in your personal account, or on the load, unloading of documents— said the expert of the direction “Popular Front. Analytics »Alla Khrapunova.
As the State Duma deputy, a member of the Inform Policy Committee, the federal coordinator of the Digital Russia party project Anton Nemkin, in such schemes, scammers convince users to contact technical support supposedly to change the password and other accounting data.
In such schemes, scammers convince users to contact “technical support” on their own. In fact, references in these messages lead to phishing sites that look as official, but are designed to steal logins, passwords and even bank details— said the deputy.
Nemkin explained that due to the restrictions introduced by attackers, as well as active educational policy, scammers are forced to change their strategies.
A significant part of Russians already knows that the request to report the code from the message is one of the key markers of fraud. In addition, from June 1, 2025, the procedure for changing the password on “public services. Now the platform sends the code to confirm the operation only if at this moment the user does not speak on the phone. Fraudsters are simply forced to adapt their schemes and apply more sophisticated attack methods, ”said the deputy.
Since June 4, 2025, a pilot project on an instant blocking of phishing pages will also start in Russia, the deputy noted.
This is a new system for the operational blocking of phishing Internet resources involved in the illegal collection of user information. In test mode, the system will function until March 1, 2026. Within the framework of the pilot, the Ministry of Construction of Russia, together with the relevant authorities, test new mechanisms for the operational exchange of information and general interagency interaction on the problems of cyber abundance— said the deputy.
But the best protection against the actions of criminals is still caution and critical thinking, Nemkin is sure.
If you received a message allegedly related to the “public services”, do not cross the links indicated in it — instead, you need to check the entry into the account in the personal account of the portal. With signs of hacking, you need to independently contact the Support Support Service, all official numbers are presented on the Internet resource itself— the deputy gave recommendations.
Source: press service of the State Duma deputy Anton Nemkina
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