The activity of the cyber abdomers using Telegram to steal the money of their victims has significantly decreased after the statement of the founder of the messenger Pavel Durov about the readiness to transfer the data of violators of the rules for its use. This, as RBC writes , said in the company FACCT, providing services in the field of cybersecurity.
“Revenues of 70% of fraudulent groups operating according to the Mamont scheme, over four weeks from the moment Durov’s statement, decreased by an average of 22% - from 58 million to 45 million rubles,” they said there,
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Representatives of the company explained that “mammoth” experts call a fraudulent scheme, in the framework of which attackers abduct money using phishing pages when paying for fake purchase of goods or reservation of housing.
According to FACCT, this scheme appeared in 2019. Since 2021, the cyber abunders using it abducted 8.6 billion rubles. At the same time, only over the past year in Russia and the CIS countries the damage from the use of the Mamont scheme was 1.2 billion rubles.
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On September 23, the founder of Telegram messenger Pavel Durov said his company can transfer IP addresses and phone numbers of violators of the rules for using the application of law enforcement agencies in case of a legally justified request from them. He also later said that the messenger has transferred the authorities to the authorities suspects in cybercrime since 2018.
These statements followed the detention of Durov by French law enforcement officers in Paris, after which he was accused of promoting illegal activities in Telegram due to insufficient moderation and refusing the messenger’s administration to cooperate with the authorities.
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