A quarter of crimes in Russia are committed using the internet. This is reported with reference to statistics from the Attorney General’s Office. TASS.
The internet was used by criminals in 477 thousand (26.5%) of the 1.8 million crimes recorded in the country between January and November 2023.
With a more comprehensive interpretation of IT crimes (actions on the Internet, social networks and instant messengers, telephone fraud, theft of money from bank cards, crimes using electronic payment systems for online purchases, crimes on the dark web, hackers) their number increases by one third: 614 8 thousand cases.
Most of these (324 thousand cases) are fraud.
“Last year, the number of recorded IT crimes increased by 30% and IT fraud increased by 40%,” the publication states.
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