Since the outset of this year, hackers stolen 3.8 i thou one thousand dollars from Russians using spider web phishing. This is 6% to a greater extent than than final year.
Experts believe that spider web phishing is the easiest too most effective means to pocket money, every bit people are increasingly using Bank cards. Scammers practise mistaken websites that simulate the brands of Russian Banks too rob citizens.
According to experts of the society Group-IB, past times early on autumn, the release of such hacker groups reached 26. Every day, hackers stole an average of xv thou dollars.
According to the Director of Inpas Alexey Lavruhin, the reasons for the growth of thefts are: the increment inwards the release of Bank cards too purchases over the Internet. Many unsuspecting users operate inwards their logins too passwords from personal accounts on "fake" websites, give CVV too PIN codes to scammers.
The Group-IB noted that due to the central of Bank's messages amongst the FinCERT of the Central Bank, the growth of this type of fraud is non then active. This organization allows you lot rattling apace to disclose phishing sites too block them. So, for this twelvemonth it managed to unopen 1668 fraudulent sites. The release of blocked websites of "Banks" has increased close 8 times.
Recall that FinCERT is a oculus for monitoring too responding to figurer attacks inwards the credit too fiscal sector, which is a structural unit of measurement of the Bank of Russia, existing since 2015.
