In January and February of this year, the number of phishing sites in the domains of .ru and .rf amounted to 5.2 thousand, which is almost three times the number in 2022 – 1.85 thousand. The newspaper writes about it “News” Regarding the autonomous non-profit organization (ANO) “Domains Coordination Center”.
ANO Director Andrey Vorobyov said one of the reasons for this was the confusion about SSL certificates that arose after Western certificate centers refused to operate in the Russian Federation.
Until February 2022, foreign certificate centers were issuing SSL certificates, but after February 24, 2022, many refused to work with the Russian Federation.
According to Vorobyov, several local certification centers have started operating in Russia over the past year, and the problem is losing its urgency.
formerly Vorobyov said On average, 25.5 hours pass between detection and blocking of each new malicious domain in socialbites.ca, Runet. According to him, in 2022, 15.3 thousand phishing sites were blocked on Runet with the joint efforts of all organizations. 99% of them were in the .ru domain zone.