An article appeared on the Yandex blog on the use of Alice by attackers. But not the assistant himself, but his voice, which is faked by scammers.
“Our Alice is a popular character, and she is often parodied – for example, on YouTube. Attackers do this clumsily, but a fake can not always be recognized the first time, ”the company notes.
It is interesting that calls on behalf of “Alice” are received, including employees of “Yandex”, and even manage to record them. The company studied the records and noted that the fake Alice has nothing to do with Yandex. Attackers just want to get access to other people’s bank cards. Therefore, the first thing they seek to do is to gain trust.
The phones from which the fake “Alice” calls, “Yandex” asks to be blacklisted so that the caller ID, which is built into the application, warns in advance that it is not worth picking up the phone. However, it is difficult to defeat the attackers, because they constantly change the numbers and the text that the robot reads out.
In “Yandex” I emphasize that the real “Alice”, who knows how to control the phone, answer calls, dial a number from the address book, will never start a conversation herself.
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