Cyber ​ ​ police (Department for Organizing the Fight against the Illegal Use of ICT of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia)

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2023: Moscow Cyber ​ ​ Police summed up the work for the year. "Now it's calmer to go out than the Internet"

At the end of April 2024, the Department for Combating the Illegal Use of Information and Communication Technologies of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Moscow published statistics on the investigation of cases related to the use of IT to commit remote types of fraud. The main task of this operational unit is to search for criminals who, among other things, are engaged in luring money using phone calls and communications in instant messengers.

According to Vladimir Vasenin, head of the information and public relations department of the capital's Glavka MVD, now in Moscow half of all registered crimes are fraud.

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You and I are now calmer to go out than to enter the Internet, - said Vladimir Vasenin. - The share of remote fraud is growing from year to year in the trend. In fact, the structure of crime is changing. The danger is no longer hidden on the street, but in the device that is always with us.

The number of crimes using ICT, which were solved in 2023 in Moscow, amounted to 15.5 thousand. And the number of persons who were detained in Moscow for committing various types of remote fraud is almost 8 thousand. Most of the detainees are financial intermediaries or so-called droppers who are engaged in embezzlement of other people's funds.

Vladimir Vasenin noted that to a greater extent, the attack on citizens comes from the territory of foreign states. Elderly people can be forced by manipulation to transfer all the money in their accounts to criminals, then take out a loan, then sell an apartment, then declare that they have become a victim of fraud, and offer to return everything if a person commits other illegal actions against the Russian state. True, if he commits these actions, then he does not receive money back, and with a high probability he will become a defendant in a criminal case.

Moreover, a survey of 3 thousand people conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow showed that all 100% know what fraud is, but at the time of the call, this knowledge does not work.

Dmitry Prosolenko, head of the department for combating the illegal use of ICT of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow, also spoke about the increase in cases of encryption of phones demanding the subsequent ransom and use of deepfakes, with the help of which fraudsters hide their identities behind familiar images. As criminals increasingly use high technologies to commit a crime, adequate services to inform the population, control and identify fraudulent actions are also needed to combat them.

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Due to the relevance of the problem of fraud, in addition to law enforcement agencies, it is also being fought on the side of Internet sites. The actions of major market players are mainly aimed at ensuring the security of communications between sellers and buyers. To do this, the platforms offer verification of both parties to the transaction, form confidence ratings for them and limit the possibilities of communications outside the controlled area.

Marketplaces that bring the buyer and the seller together have to use a whole range of measures to increase confidence in their platform. In particular, Avito also has a seller verification program with a rated feedback system, its own secure messenger for organizing communication between the buyer and seller, and its own delivery service.

Mobile operators and banks that know their users from concluded contracts offer various verification systems to verify their identity. In particular, banks create their own federated authentication systems, such as Alfa ID, Sberbank ID, Tinkoff ID, with which you can control and profile user actions. Analysis of the information collected using big data technology allows you to identify fraud attempts during financial transactions.

Mobile operators, for their part, also see almost all user communications, so analysis of data collected by their systems, such as calls, manager messages, mail messages, web page addresses and files uploaded to users' devices, also help identify, among other things, attacks using malicious applications and using social engineering.

So the Beeline company offers its users the Label service, which recognizes calls from trusted sources and warns subscribers about spam or fraudulent calls. Similar services in Megafon are called Antifrod Scoring and Scoring Social Engineering, which, using artificial intelligence technologies, try to identify attempts at fraud and social engineering and warn subscribers about them. Thus, combining the efforts of banks and mobile operators can help to bring a person out of the state of manipulation by a fraudster in time and prevent irreparable consequences.

2022: Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the creation of cyber police

The Office for the Organization of Combating the Illegal Use of ICT MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia was created a year ago as part of the implementation of Presidential Decree No. 688^[1] of September 30, 2022 to combat crimes using ICT throughout the country. The Regulation on Management was approved by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated December 29, 2022 No. 1110^[2] of^[3].

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