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The Incident Response Division of the State Information System Department (RIA) recorded 337 cyberattacks in Estonia in October, which is the highest number in the last six months.
As before, most of the incidents in October were phishing attacks - 178 of them were detected, ERR radio news reports on Monday.
Automated monitoring also detected 1,282 devices infected with malicious software, which was reported to network owners.
Among the most significant failures in the provision of services, RIA notes that on October 3, due to system overload, the main services of the Health Insurance Fund were interrupted for almost an hour and a half: issuing digital prescriptions, checking the availability of health insurance, and others.
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A 67-year-old resident of Tallinn lost 10,000 euros after a call from a phone fraudster.
A criminal case was opened on the basis of the victim's statement, the Pykh Prefecture reported on Friday.
According to the victim, he was called by a man who introduced himself as a police officer, who said that they were trying to get a loan in the name of the man.
To solve the alleged problem, the man was asked to install the AnyDesk program on his computer and perform a few more actions, which had to be confirmed using PIN codes from the ID card.
The victim followed the instructions, and then discovered that about 10,000 euros had disappeared from his account.
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On Thursday, November 16, a woman living in Narva, who became a victim of fraud, contacted the police.
The victim received a call allegedly from the police and, under the pretext of preventing fraud, was asked to download the AnyDesk program to her computer.
The Narvityan woman downloaded the program and entered the passwords in her Smart-ID. The damage caused by fraud amounted to 7,600 euros.
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A 74-year-old resident of Tallinn has become another victim of fraudsters, having lost a large sum of money.
The victim received a call allegedly from the police, saying that a wanted man was trying to withdraw money from her account.
The fraudster asked to continue communicating on Viber, where he sent a copy of a fake police ID card in order to gain the victim's trust.
After that, the alleged employee of the bank talked to the woman, who asked her to transfer money to the accounts of employees of the bank's security system, as well as download the AnyDesk program and confirm operations with their PIN codes.
As a result of the fraud, damage was caused in the amount of 28,000 euros.
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On Tuesday, November 21, the police received numerous reports that residents of Estonia receive automatic calls by a robot in English. The Estonian police stressed that they had nothing to do with these calls.
The fraudulent scheme is similar to the previous false calls, when fraudsters present themselves as police officers. A person who received an automated call that is currently being distributed by a robot is informed that his ID card data has been stolen, and he is put on the international wanted list. During the call, you are asked to enter the number one on the phone keyboard to continue the conversation allegedly with the police officer.
Vyacheslav Milenin, head of the Serious Crimes Investigation Service of the Pyhya Prefecture Criminal Bureau, assured that these calls are not received from the Estonian police.
"Scammers have become very active, today more than 100 people in Estonia have received such an automatic call by a robot. The goal of scammers is to gain access to people's money or data. If you receive a call from an unknown number and the caller claims that your data has been stolen, immediately stop the conversation," said Milenin.
As before, most of the incidents in October were phishing attacks - 178 of them were detected, ERR radio news reports on Monday.
Automated monitoring also detected 1,282 devices infected with malicious software, which was reported to network owners.
Among the most significant failures in the provision of services, RIA notes that on October 3, due to system overload, the main services of the Health Insurance Fund were interrupted for almost an hour and a half: issuing digital prescriptions, checking the availability of health insurance, and others.
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A 67-year-old resident of Tallinn lost 10,000 euros after a call from a phone fraudster.
A criminal case was opened on the basis of the victim's statement, the Pykh Prefecture reported on Friday.
According to the victim, he was called by a man who introduced himself as a police officer, who said that they were trying to get a loan in the name of the man.
To solve the alleged problem, the man was asked to install the AnyDesk program on his computer and perform a few more actions, which had to be confirmed using PIN codes from the ID card.
The victim followed the instructions, and then discovered that about 10,000 euros had disappeared from his account.
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On Thursday, November 16, a woman living in Narva, who became a victim of fraud, contacted the police.
The victim received a call allegedly from the police and, under the pretext of preventing fraud, was asked to download the AnyDesk program to her computer.
The Narvityan woman downloaded the program and entered the passwords in her Smart-ID. The damage caused by fraud amounted to 7,600 euros.
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A 74-year-old resident of Tallinn has become another victim of fraudsters, having lost a large sum of money.
The victim received a call allegedly from the police, saying that a wanted man was trying to withdraw money from her account.
The fraudster asked to continue communicating on Viber, where he sent a copy of a fake police ID card in order to gain the victim's trust.
After that, the alleged employee of the bank talked to the woman, who asked her to transfer money to the accounts of employees of the bank's security system, as well as download the AnyDesk program and confirm operations with their PIN codes.
As a result of the fraud, damage was caused in the amount of 28,000 euros.
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On Tuesday, November 21, the police received numerous reports that residents of Estonia receive automatic calls by a robot in English. The Estonian police stressed that they had nothing to do with these calls.
The fraudulent scheme is similar to the previous false calls, when fraudsters present themselves as police officers. A person who received an automated call that is currently being distributed by a robot is informed that his ID card data has been stolen, and he is put on the international wanted list. During the call, you are asked to enter the number one on the phone keyboard to continue the conversation allegedly with the police officer.
Vyacheslav Milenin, head of the Serious Crimes Investigation Service of the Pyhya Prefecture Criminal Bureau, assured that these calls are not received from the Estonian police.
"Scammers have become very active, today more than 100 people in Estonia have received such an automatic call by a robot. The goal of scammers is to gain access to people's money or data. If you receive a call from an unknown number and the caller claims that your data has been stolen, immediately stop the conversation," said Milenin.