Russian credit institutions did not suffer significant losses despite a significant increase in hacker attacks on the infrastructures of such institutions in 2022. In this respect Wrote The newspaper Vedomosti, which refers to an unnamed representative of the Bank of Russia.
According to the interlocutor of the publication, cases of money theft from individual banks arose in the country due to security vulnerabilities of IT objects and flawed business processes.
“Of course there are losses, but they are not large and do not affect (banks’) financial stability in any way,” said Elvira Nabiullina, head of the regulator, on the sidelines of the Cybersecurity in Finance forum.
According to Group-IB, an international information security company quoted by the newspaper, targeted attacks on banking structures with ATM network, card processing or withdrawals via the SWIFT interbank payment system have virtually stopped in the country, but phishing is at a dangerously high level at the border. We’re talking about scammers trying to gain access to confidential user data – logins and passwords.
Last week in Kaspersky Lab’s press service saidHe said that in January 2023, the company’s security solutions blocked Russian attempts to hack into 151,000 phishing sites that impersonated Telegram.