According to Vadim Uvarov, the Bank of Russia

[tanjimajuha20]

This was stated by the Director of the Information Security Department of the Bank of Russia, Vadim Uvarov, on October 22 at the All-Russian Conference on Finance and Investments "Tolk".

According to the Bank afghanistan whatsapp number database of Russia, in the second quarter of 2024, fraudsters set a record: they stole 4.8 billion rubles from bank accounts and companies, which is almost 20% higher than the average for the past four quarters.

is focused on operational information exchange between market participants, and the main tool for this is the Bank of Russia's FinCERT (Financial Computer Emergency Response Team) and its structural divisions.

"More than 1,200 organizations are participants in the information exchange. We collect information on a daily basis from those financial market organizations that were attacked, conduct research on these parameters, generate bulletins and send them out daily to the participants of the information exchange. Based on the results of 2023, FinCERT of the Bank of Russia issued 280 such bulletins so that financial market organizations could promptly respond to threats and resist serious attacks from intruders," said Vadim Uvarov.

According to him, in 2023, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation took into account about 30 million attempts to steal funds, and the amount of prevented damage was about 5.8 trillion rubles. "In 2024, banks prevented 30 million fraud attempts. In fact, in six months we approached the figure that was achieved based on the results of 2023. The total amount of prevented damage was about 4.3 trillion rubles," added Vadim Uvarov.

According to him, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation also interacts with telecom operators: this year, the Bank of Russia transferred about 100 thousand telephone numbers from which fraudsters still make phone calls to Russians.

In addition, we cooperate with the Prosecutor General's Office to block fraudulent Internet resources: in six months, a total of 25 thousand such sites have been blocked.

Anna Kulashova, Managing Director of Kaspersky Lab in Russia and the CIS, added that in the second quarter of 2024, Kaspersky Lab recorded more than a million clicks on phishing pages of banks created by attackers in Russia, as well as about half a million clicks on phishing payment services.

Read also