Overview

• Cybersecurity company F6 reports a new FakeBoss offshoot called FakeTeam, where a coordinated set of bogus accounts in messenger group chats impersonates a boss, HR and colleagues to intensify pressure.
• Attackers direct targets to a fake government-service bot and solicit a six‑digit code, then claim the victim’s cabinet was breached to push transfers to a so‑called safe account or handoffs to a courier.
• F6 notes the tactic repurposes earlier collective‑pressure methods from harmful online groups, now adapted for financial fraud using realistic photos and titles to fabricate legitimacy.
• Kaspersky’s Sergey Golovanov cites a growing trend of phone calls posing as neighbors about intercom key replacements to elicit a four‑digit code, with complaints rising over the summer and holding into early autumn.
• Experts advise restricting calls, messages and chat invites from unknown users, disabling search by phone number, never sharing SMS or push codes, enabling two‑factor authentication and, if an account is compromised, blocking it and contacting official service centers such as an MFC.