VK announced the launch of a new program to protect users and their data VK Protect. It will combine existing protection programs within the company's ecosystem.
According to the press service, the main task of the updated program is to combine all the technical solutions that were previously taken by the company to protect users. Innovations will help to manage privacy more effectively and use tools to protect personal information.
VK has also expanded the use of two-factor authentication, which all community administrators with more than 10,000 subscribers will now be required to pass. At the moment, there are 140,000 such societies on the platform. Two-factor authentication is available in all services of the VK ecosystem, where there is authorization through a single account, as well as when logging into third-party partner sites and applications.
Olga Frolova, Director of Ecosystem Products at VK, stressed that information security will remain a key priority for the company. "We are constantly fighting phishing and promptly notify our users of any suspicious activity. We plan to further develop this area - to invest even more resources in it and actively educate Runet users," Frolova added.
As part of VK Protect, it is also planned to restart the program for payments to security researchers (Bug Bounty) VKontakte and VK ID, and the level of rewards will be increased.
Earlier, CySecurity News reported that the official Yandex Go community in VKontakte sent out an offer to subscribers to take part in a fake raffle with the text “Let's give electronic equipment, accessories and the main prize - money”. Subscribers received messages with phishing links to an external site, where they were asked to enter bank details in order to win $3 thousand.
