The first deputy chairman of the State Construction Committee of the Federation Council, Artem Sheikin, proposed to force Telegram and other popular messengers in Russia to periodically notify users about fraud methods on the Internet. He told RIA Novosti about this.
Author:
https://rb.ru/author/mihail-zelenin/
Subscribe to RB.RU on Telegram
“I consider it necessary to introduce mandatory measures to inform users via instant messengers, the most popular of which are Yandex.Messenger, VK Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram and Viber, about new fraud methods,” the senator noted.
According to Sheikin, such notification should be done in two ways: when installing the application for the first time, the user should be shown the most common methods of Internet fraud and then notified monthly about the attackers’ new strategies. This will help users “be more attentive when exchanging messages,” explained the parliamentarian.
He added that the number of crimes committed through instant messaging has doubled in a year, and one in seven cybercrimes occurs through social networks, where “there is an increase in the number of publications of extremist and terrorist content.”
Previously, the head of the cybercrime investigation department of the Investigative Committee, Konstantin Komarda, stated that the number of crimes committed using instant messengers has almost doubled compared to 2023. “3,072 such cases have been registered. The messengers “They are used, as a general rule, for communication between members of an organized criminal group within the framework of the commission of a crime, as well as for the commission of crimes related to drug trafficking,” he indicated.
Author:
Mikhail Zelenin
Source: RB
I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.
