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The State Special Communications Service told how to prevent theft of accounts through a fake UKR.NET page

The Ukrainian government's IT emergency response team “CERT-UA” has been recording excessive activity from the UAC-0102 hacker group over the past month.

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State Special Communications Service explained how to prevent account theft via the fake UKR.NET page

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As reported by NBN with reference to the official page of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, the goal of the above-described cybercriminals was to steal the accounts of citizens registered on the national mail service MAIL.UKR.NET, first of all, we are talking about stealing personal information of employees of government agencies, military personnel and employees of domestic enterprises/organizations.

In particular, hackers took advantage of the fact that public mail services do not have the means to perform preliminary verification of emails, as corporate services do — cybercriminals began distributing mailings with attached archives containing HTML files.

After opening such an “attachment,” the recipient is redirected to a web resource that visually imitates the real MAIL.UKR.NET page, but is in fact a phishing site: when entering a login and password, these authentication data are received by the attackers, while a distracting application is downloaded to the victim’s computer.

CERT-UA specialists strongly recommend:

Earlier, we wrote about the State Special Communications Service warning about the spread of a new fraudulent scheme with bank cards in Ukraine.

nbnews.com.ua

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