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Every day, Russians are losing tens of millions of rubles due to cybercrime
About a third of the total number of offenses in Russia falls on crimes in the field of IT. Only in the first seven months of 2024, more than half a million such crimes were recorded. This was written by the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
From January to July, about 577 thousand IT excessions were registered in Russia. Most of this number (437 thousand cases) fell on fraud and theft. Daniil Filippov, Deputy Head of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that the damage from IT crimes for the first seven months amounted to 99 billion rubles. Over the past year, the damage from crimes related to digital technologies was estimated at 156 billion rubles.
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Filippov confirmed that criminal acts in the field of IT are occupied by 30% of all crimes in the country. “You can imagine if there were no these crimes, then conditionally all crime - serious, especially serious crimes - would have been 40%left,” Filippov said.
The Prosecutor General’s Office proposed introducing more stringent measures to protect information in digital space. In 2024, the department blocked access to almost 40 thousand resources. Among them were phishing sites and resources selling fake documents. The head of the department for the implementation of laws in the field of information technology and the protection of information of the Prosecutor General Oleg Kipkoyev saw the problem in the politics of many companies that force users to consent to the processing of personal data. According to him, organizations accumulate personal data of Russians without thinking about digital security.
“It is necessary to exclude excessive collection of information and move on to the principle of destruction of data after achieving the goals of their collection,” concluded the prosecutor Kipkoyev.
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State Duma deputy Anton Nemkin noted that residents of the Russian regions are vulnerable to the attacks of cyber -subjects. This can be explained by insufficient awareness of cybersecurity: the regions do not have the opportunity to train residents of digital hygiene. Because of this, every day, citizens lose several tens of millions of rubles, which go to scammers.
The victims of scammers are increasingly becoming Hamster Kombat. Attackers are aimed at the hacking of players in Telegram. Fraudsters send users a phishing link through which you can supposedly get coins from the game to real rubles. By crossing the link, users need to authorize and enter the accounting data from the profile in Telegram. Thus, the personal data of Russians provide scammers in the hands of.
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