“Cyber Security” and Abu Dhabi Police warn against dealing with messages and calls, anonymous source

The Cyber Security Council stressed to the government of the UAE countries and Abu Dhabi Police the importance of taking caution in dealing with unknown messages or calls, which may be a window for electronic hunting and fraud.

The Council emphasized that the great acceleration in the pace of technological progress has led to an increase in the rates of cyber attacks and electronic fraud, which has become one of the growing challenges facing individuals and societies, especially with the multiplicity of its forms, images, branches of its methods, the development of digital tools and the growing use of the Internet in all aspects of daily life, where electronic fraud is no longer limited to traditional means, but rather exploits electronic services, smart applications, and digital networks In luring the victims in elaborate ways, it is often difficult to detect until after the crime occurred.

The entry of artificial intelligence tools into the cyberspace square also contributed to increasing the complexities of confrontation, and the task of confronting these crimes requires concerted efforts between individuals and institutions, and raising the level of societal awareness to keep pace with the rapid transformations in the world of electronic crime.

For its part, Abu Dhabi Police has warned members of society of electronic fraud attempts and renewable methods and luring victims through suspicious links or fake ads scattered in search engines, fake functions or real estate fraud, stressing the importance of using approved applications when conducting purchases or requesting services.

She explained that some fraudsters take advantage of the ads at cheap prices in search engines to inflict victims and steal their personal or financial data, through fake sites that delude users that they are affiliated with official bodies or well -known companies.

She urged the need to ensure the authenticity of the electronic links, and not to share banking or personal information with any unreliable party, and to rely on the official applications approved by government agencies or available on well -known application stores.App Store andGoogle Play”.

Abu Dhabi Police appealed to the public not to share confidential information with any person, whether account information or card, passwords for banking services via the Internet, personal identification numbers for ATMs or safety number.CCVOr password.

She called on community members to immediately report any fraudulent attempt through the safety service through the Communication Center 8002626 aman@adpolice.gov.aeOr serving the police station in your phone, confirming its continued security awareness and confronting electronic crimes to embody its strategic priority in enhancing security and safety and the strategic goal of preventing crime.

For his part, the Cyber Security Council affirmed that electronic attacks for fraud target individuals, companies, or even major institutions, and the means of protection and tracking varies between individuals, institutions and countries according to the extent of the efficiency of the mechanisms used and the percentage of awareness and training for people and teams.

To confront these attacks, the Cyber Security Council held a number of awareness workshops in cooperation with the various concerned authorities, in addition to the councils and seminars that he organized in the presence of a large number of citizens and residents to raise awareness of the dangers of electronic attacks and new methods that target users by pushing them to download harmful applications that give the fraudsters full control of their smartphones.

The Council also launched a number of awareness initiatives that targeted community members to raise awareness of the dangers of electronic applications that are not reliable, and included awareness messages and custom campaigns about the dangers of electronic clinic, which included urging citizens to fully verify when dealing with unreliable applications including caution from downloading applications except from official stores and rejecting any direct links sent through individual messages, and not agreeing to download programs under various pretexts, as well as not sharing symbols Bilateral verification with any party and reviewing applications of applications before installing them, refusing to give them unnecessary powers such as accessing messages or administrative settings and continuous updating of operating systems to fill security vulnerabilities, and use anti -virus programs.

The awareness initiatives included sessions of experts in cybersecurity, during which they explained the importance of the role of individuals in facing these attacks through constant verification and verification of phone calls, especially those through which vital data such as identity number or bank account numbers, and verify that these numbers are the numbers of the approved official authorities that work according to advanced cyber systems that protect citizens’ data and digital infrastructure.

The Cyber Security Council and Abu Dhabi Police emphasized that all concerned authorities devote their efforts to follow up the communications related to electronic fraud through their official channels and the authorities concerned with electronic crimes, while emphasizing that immediate reporting is the most important defense line to contain damage, and this comes in parallel with the raising of digital awareness and the commitment to simple preventive measures that will be able to disable these attempts; In light of the development of fraud, individuals’ awareness becomes the first line of defense.