Since the beginning of 2023, cyber crooks have stolen 4.5 billion rubles from Russian bank accounts and cards, a third more than in the whole of last year. In this respect writer The newspaper Izvestiya, citing statistics provided by Vadim Uvarov, head of the Information Security Department (IS) of the Bank of Russia.
Vitaly Fomin, an information security specialist at the Digital Economy League, is confident that one of the main reasons for the trend is the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. According to him, scammers use artificial intelligence to automate their activities. For example, a neural network can write competent text and take the place of a person when communicating with bank customers with voice assistants.
In addition, the increase in the number of users of online banking and the opening of large fake call centers outside Russia contributed to the increase in theft of money from the accounts of Russians, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, chief expert of the information protection systems department of the Gazinformservice complex, explained.
“… Russia’s disconnection from SWIFT makes fraud more difficult, as money cannot be withdrawn to foreign bank accounts,” said CorpSoft24 Chief Engineer Mikhail Sergeev.
From the statistics quoted by Uvarov, it turns out that customers’ money saved is more than stolen. Banks managed to save 700 billion rubles by preventing 2.7 million cyber attacks on Russian accounts. The Central Bank has started blocking nearly 97,000 fake phone numbers.
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