In the first quarter of 2024, Russian banks resisted large-scale cyberattacks by fraudsters, preventing the theft of nearly 2 trillion rubles of customer funds. This is stated in review Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
Despite the efforts of financial institutions, attackers stole 4.3 billion rubles from customers; This figure is 6.3% less than the previous year. At the same time, the number of unauthorized transactions increased by 16.8% to 294.4 thousand. Banks were able to return approximately 331.1 million rubles to the victims. (7.7% of total theft amount).
The largest growth was recorded in the Fast Payment System segment: the volume of stolen funds more than doubled to 1.1 billion rubles, and the number of stolen transactions from bank cards increased by 3.5 times to 1.9 billion rubles. (increase by 1.4 times). On the contrary, thefts through internet banking decreased by 2.8 times to RUB 901.7 million.
“Fraudsters are constantly changing tactics and improving their cyber attack methods. “For this reason, banks need to increase the attention and protection of their customers by explaining the rules of financial security,” he said.
Before that Russians warned We see scammers increasingly using social engineering schemes.
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Source: Gazeta
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