✈️В мессенджере Telegram появилась новая схема кражи пользовательских аккаунтов, предупреждают в МВД России.
Аферисты от имени "службы поддержки" сообщают пользователю о поступившей заявке на удаление его аккаунта. Затем просят продиктовать код из SMS, чтобы получить доступ к аккаунту.
В ведомстве напомнили, что в мессенджере отсутствует функционал подачи "заявки на удаление аккаунта", а служба поддержки не отправляет подобные уведомления.
✈️В мессенджере Telegram появилась новая схема кражи пользовательских аккаунтов, предупреждают в МВД России.
Аферисты от имени "службы поддержки" сообщают пользователю о поступившей заявке на удаление его аккаунта. Затем просят продиктовать код из SMS, чтобы получить доступ к аккаунту.
В ведомстве напомнили, что в мессенджере отсутствует функционал подачи "заявки на удаление аккаунта", а служба поддержки не отправляет подобные уведомления.
Despite Telegram's origins, its approach to users' security has privacy advocates worried. Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his armed forces to surrender. Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe. At this point, however, Durov had already been working on Telegram with his brother, and further planned a mobile-first social network with an explicit focus on anti-censorship. Later in April, he told TechCrunch that he had left Russia and had “no plans to go back,” saying that the nation was currently “incompatible with internet business at the moment.” He added later that he was looking for a country that matched his libertarian ideals to base his next startup. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised.
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