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Cyber attacks
A cyber threat is the spread of viruses and spam on the network, due to which there is a threat of draining personal data of a person, company or state.
Now the number of cybercrimes is increasing. In the 2nd quarter of 2023, it grew by almost 17% compared to the 2nd quarter of 2022. The share of planned cyberattacks aimed at a specific company has increased.
Attacks on the financial sector
In 2023, the number of attacks targeting clients of various financial organizations has increased. The attacks used new malware and updated versions of an already known one.
In January of this year, there was an increase in fraudulent investment schemes. The attackers offered the victims to increase their income. For example, take a survey or register an "account" in services allegedly belonging to large Russian companies.
Targeted attacks
Targeted attacks are well planned and include several stages. As a result of such an attack, attackers gain constant access to data and remain unnoticed for a long time.
On June 6 of this year, a source that already had the drains of various services of the Sber ecosystem and others, published customer data of many Russian companies. There were leaks from the Auchan, Your House, Leroy Merlin hypermarkets, Gloria Jeans websites, book24.ru , "Ascona", "Bukvoed", "YOURS" and others. The network turned out to have more than 20 million rows of data, including: full name, phone numbers, email addresses.
Fraud
Fraud this is a deception or abuse of trust as a result of which the theft of property or funds occurs. Such criminal activity is prosecuted by law.
The most popular fraud schemes are extortion of securities, false accusations and telephone fraud.
Securities
The essence of the fraudulent scheme is that citizens are offered to invest money in investments. Potential victims are offered a large profit in a short time. And in order for a person to believe for sure, he is invited to the office. There they play a whole "performance" for him, which creates an atmosphere of success.
So, for example, it happened with the "investment company" in the west of Moscow. Loud noises were heard in the office of false brokers, allegedly denoting a large deal with a great benefit for one of the project participants. This event was met with universal rejoicing.
In fact, it turned out that all operations took place in an exchange simulator. And the real money of the customers fell into the pocket of the attackers.
Sponsorship of terrorism
The second scheme is connected with false accusations of sponsoring terrorists or the armed forces of Ukraine. The swindler introduces himself as a police officer and reports that money was withdrawn from the victim's account to finance extremists or the AFU. Next, the fraudster offers to fulfill all the requirements in order to avoid criminal liability.
Thus, a 41-year-old resident of Moscow was deceived. An unknown person called her and informed her that 100 thousand rubles had been written off from her account in favor of the Ukrainian army. To avoid criminal liability, the fraudster offered the woman to withdraw all savings from the account and transfer them to the specified details. Frightened, the woman did so. After she realized that she had been deceived, she contacted the police.
Phone fraud
Pensioners are most often the victims of telephone scams, since they most often use a landline phone. It is difficult to determine the caller's number by it. The fraudster reports that a relative got into trouble, for example, became the culprit of an accident and money is needed so that he is not brought to criminal responsibility. Or a relative needs an urgent operation for which money is needed. The attacker also introduces himself as a bank employee and informs that the victim's accounts are under threat and the money urgently needs to be transferred to a "secure account".
