Scammers mostly call Russians on behalf of law enforcement agencies and the Central Bank 08:26

The most relevant and dangerous fraud schemes, he said in an interview, are calls made by phone and via instant messaging programs on behalf of law enforcement officers and the Central Bank, requiring money transfers to a secure account. RIA Novosti Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

According to him, this year, scenarios aimed at gaining access to an account in the State Services are also popular among attackers; criminals use various pretexts for this, depending on the age of the victim. For example, the elderly receive a call on behalf of a health institution or social organization, while young people may receive a call about the arrival of a parcel or letter. At the same time, scammers operate in two groups: the first enters your personal account and prepares it for the second, which is involved in the processing of loans.

Kuznetsov warned that information from the hacked account could also be used to implement other fraudulent schemes.

“We at Sberbank have developed a simple and effective way to combat such fraud; you need to disable the authorization feature on the MFO websites through the State Services portal – then the scammers will lose interest in it,” said the deputy chairman of Sberbank.

As for deepfake, as Stanislav Kuznetsov noted, this technology is mainly used as an additional means of persuasion in already known fraud scenarios, for example, hacking a relative or friend’s account.

Previously Sber started A program to search for vulnerabilities in the application security testing platform with the participation of independent researchers BI.ZONE Bug Bounty. Users of the company’s services who find vulnerabilities will be able to receive a reward of up to 500 thousand rubles, depending on the level of criticality.