Scammers attempt to hack Kropyvnytskyi's "Hrechka"

The Kropyvnytskyi news outlet "Hrechka" received a phishing email claiming to have been sent by the State Tax Service inspection in the Suvorovskyi district, Odesa.

The media outlet's editor Anastasia Dziubak reported this to Pavel Lisnychenko, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Kirovohrad oblast.

According to the journalist, the email mentioned an inconsistency in the news outlet's paperwork, suggesting the view the document in question by following the link in the body of the letter.

The email received by "Hrechka". Screenshot by "Hrechka"

Anastasia Dziubak said that such letters rarely arrive at their editorial inbox. However, the news outlet has already developed an algorithm for dealing with such correspondence.

"I immediately warned my colleagues once again about the risks of phishing (in April, the entire team went through digital security training). Moreover, I reported the email to the Digital Security Laboratory, and they confirmed it was phishing," she said.

In September, the cyber police reported that scammers were hacking user accounts in a popular messenger app and sending phishing messages to the victim's contact list about receiving financial assistance from the government or from international organizations.