The bot prompts «to verify your account».
< p> The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine informs about the appearance of a new chat bot in the Telegram messenger, which is super popular these days. In particular, the bot hacks and steals user accounts, Khronika.info reports with reference to RBC-Ukraine.
Thus, an example of the @DdosInstruction_bot chat bot is given, which allegedly has « cyberwar».
However, if you run it on your device, it prompts «verify your account».
Once «check&# 187; passed, the person immediately loses access to their account. This means that in the future, criminals can use it for their own purposes.
How to protect yourself
Turn on Telegram two-step checking: «Settings» — «Privacy & Security» — «Two-step verification».
You also need to be careful and use only official chat bots (the official chat bot of the Security Service of Ukraine: @stop_russian_war_bot and the official chat bot for fixing Russian crimes for The Hague : @tribunal_ua_bot).