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Before the war, Andriy Zhupnyk developed a business in Lviv that included renting musical equipment, rehearsal facilities, recording studios, and his own concert venue. In 2022, he voluntarily joined the army, and after demobilization, he decided not to return to business, but to try his hand at IT. He studied at the «IT for Veterans» program from EPAM Ukraine, mastered React and AWS, and eventually received an offer to join the company. He currently works as a Junior Software Engineer on the Digital FoodBank volunteer project.

It all started in February 2025 in the small town of Brody in the Lviv region. An employee of a local company decided to check his Telegram account during his regular workday. But instead of the usual chats, the app greeted him with a blank login screen. A sudden logout occurred from all devices at once. An attempt to re-enter the login and password failed — someone had already locked the virtual door from the inside. A couple of minutes later, a colleague came into the office: “What are you, borrowing money? I just received a request from you to transfer 5,000 hryvnias.” Then a call came from another acquaintance, who had already been sent the card number for the transfer, and a friend wrote on Facebook with a screenshot of a request for 7,500 hryvnias. This story (which later turned into a criminal case in the Brody District Court) ended relatively well: the man quickly called his friends, and no one lost money. However, this is a classic case of how, in a few seconds of inattention, a work messenger turns into a weapon in the hands of IT fraudsters. Together with the Ukrainian Interbank Association of Payment System Members " EMA " , the dev.ua editorial team continues to talk about the most popular fraudulent schemes on the Internet. And the trap of hacking a TG account, unfortunately, happens often. So what to do?

SEO has long ceased to be about buying links on exchanges and adding keywords to the text like «buy a laptop in Kiev cheaply.» Now it’s not just not working — for this, Google’s algorithms give sites an instant one-way ticket to the end of the search results.