Woman working on a laptop. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 19The distribution of malicious links in advertising services of search engines causes enormous harm not only to users, but also to the Russian economy, Evgenia Lazareva, project manager of the All-Russian Popular Front «For the Rights of Borrowers», told RIA Novosti. Google contains a huge number of malicious links leading, among other things, to fake bank websites and their personal accounts. Experts told RIA Novosti that the number of such links is in the thousands, which carries the risk of enormous financial losses for Internet users. According to Lazareva, the ONF receives daily complaints about phishing in Google ads. At the same time, the majority of malicious links were not registered in the Russian segment of the Internet. “This creates obstacles for protecting users, investigating cases of infection or data theft, and there is no talk of returning losses at all. As a result, the distribution of malicious links in advertising services causes enormous harm not only to the population, but also to the economy as a whole,” she said. According to her, it does not matter at all what jurisdiction the service is in, whether it is a local organization, a regional or transnational corporation, the main thing is to take care of the user and his safety. .jpg» />Gosuslugi sent out a warning about cases of account fraud»In Russia, in our opinion, this is well understood. An excellent example of this is the marking of links by Yandex and the self-blocking of malicious pages by our search engines in their issuance. We understand the system Google's work, but we can't help but notice the sheer amount of phishing its ad service is spreading and the catastrophic damage our citizens from such advertising,» the expert said. In May 2021, the All-Russian People's Front launched the Moshelovka platform to identify fraudsters and fight them. The experts of the ONF project «For the Rights of Borrowers», together with volunteers, process applications received from citizens, systematize them, and then transfer them to the Central Bank, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prosecutor's office and other specialized supervisory agencies.
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