A new scheme for stealing Russian social media accounts has been uncovered.

MOSCOW, April 28. Criminals began to actively use schemes to steal accounts on social networks under the guise of “technical support.” Vasily Shutov, a teacher at the department KB-1 «Information Security» of RTU MIREA, told the Prime agency how it works.
According to him, the user receives a message from an “employee” of the messenger about receiving an application to delete an account. To avoid this, they suggest following a third-party link and entering personal data and a security code. In this way, scammers gain access to the victim’s account and correspondence.
It is important to remember that no messengers collect requests to delete an account; this can only be done by the users themselves in the program settings.

“The main protection against scammers — two-factor authentication. And of course, a critical attitude towards any suspicious messages,” Shutov recalled.