Center for fight against cybercrimes, telephone spam and phishing

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2020: Creation of the Center for fight against cybercrimes, telephone spam and phishing

On November 2, 2020 the Ministry of digital development, communication and mass communications of the Russian Federation announced creation in the country of the Center for fight against cybercrimes, telephone spam (Telephone fraud) and phishing attacks.

We create the big center for fight against telephone spam, a phishing and cybercrimes. Actually we say that we [the state and the companies — a comment of TASS] meet halfway each other, i.e. our systems will become safer, and we will react more accurately and quickly to all cases, complaints when the person is called, begin to try to make some fraudulent activity and so on — Mintsifra's head of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadayev reported during the committee meeting of the Federation Council on economic policy devoted to discussion of the national program "Digital Economy".

Mintsifra creates the center of fight against telephone fraud and cybercrimes

According to Shadayev whose words are cited by TASS, within counteraction to Mintsifra's cyberthreats begins "independent testing of all state information systems regarding "holes" in their security" to exclude even the most minimum risks of violation of work of these systems caused from the outside.

According to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, for the first half of 2020 swindlers managed to steal 4 billion rubles from accounts of bank clients. In most cases swindles are carried out by phone. About 80% of malefactors called people allegedly on behalf of different financial institutions using technology of substitution of phone numbers.

From specified to clients returned about 485 million rubles, or 12.1% of a stolen property. Money which is stolen because of the client (for example if he opened to swindlers data, necessary for plunder), banks do not return. Methods of social engineering used in 83.8% of cases of the fraudulent attacks, follows from statistics of the Bank of Russia.^[1]

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