According to the FBI announcement, senior US officials are being imitated in a malicious messaging campaign.
The law enforcement agency has warned the public and its Internet Crime Complaint Center to tell how dangerous actors are targeting citizens – large -scale current or former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts – their certificates or personal information about their personal information.
Hackers are sending both sumting and witch messages. Due to the SMS or text messaging messages, when wings, voice messages made from AI commonly used in phone calls refers to, although scammers can also use their original voices in these attacks.
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In both ways, a spectacular style attack is used to target specific individuals or groups, and this is a long -standing strategy used by cybercriminals. These attacks often include providing a secondary link to victims from a malicious website that targets users to steal names and passwords, or a phone number to talk to someone who is considered reliable (a friend, partner or even public personality). This person will often request personal information, or send a malicious link to a separate messaging platform.
Once the contact is clicked on a malicious website, access to their personal or government accounts can be compromised and used to target other government officials, or their personal contacts. The information obtained through these social engineering attacks can also be used to imitate the victims themselves to steal their contacts.
A way of staying safe
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The FBI provided numerous recommendations about avoiding it and other similar scams that begin in a way to find a fake message.
When it comes to videos, look for flaws in the details of facial features, unmanaged faces or distorted hands or feet or glasses or jewelry. Check the shadows extra and look for unnatural movements. As far as phone calls are concerned, listen to the time of the call call, the sound matching, and the choice of words and words to find out if they look like the people you know.
When it comes to who is calling, texting or sending a message to you, make sure you are confirming their identity by finding the actual number of phone calls and messages, or trying to freely find the phone numbers of people or organizations who are calling. Similarly, if someone is making an email, you should check the spelling of their email address and look at the contact information in the message body for errors and at the same time confirm the contact information there.
Do not distribute sensitive, sensitive information or contact information from a fellow or fellow worker to avoid any possible results from such scams with people you only get more online or from the phone. You can confirm new contact information through a pre -authentic platform or through another reliable source.
Never click on links, attachments or QR codes in emails or text messages if they are unexpected or if you don’t know the sender. You can contact the sender directly through an alternative method to double check that you have sent the link before clicking. This is the same for downloading file and app.
To be safe, compose Passey and two factor or multi -factor verification to all the accounts that allow it. The FBI has also been recommended that you never provide your two factor or multi -factor verification code to anyone else through email, SMS/text message or encrypted messaging platforms.
Finally, the FBI says you should create a secret family password so that you can confirm each other’s identity when necessary. If you suspect something, you can always reach FBI and relevant officials to help IC3.gov.
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