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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:10 am
by tanjimajuha20
Alexander Shoitov, during his speech at the expert discussion of the Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies (ROCIT) "Open Dialogue on a Safe RuNet", named one of the main trends of 2023, along with the complication of cyberattacks, the active use of manipulative technologies by intruders - social engineering and phishing. He called the minimization of the human factor one of the most important tasks that needs to be solved with the help of both technical means, in particular the all-Russian "Anti-phishing" system, which is scheduled to be launched in 2024, and mass training in the basics of cyber hygiene. Alexander Shoitov admitted that it is impossible to achieve guaranteed protection against this kind of attack, but it is possible to canada whatsapp number database minimize possible damage, especially when reliable identification and authentication systems are implemented and users have only the minimum set of rights necessary to perform official tasks.

for using not only punitive measures against those who evade the implementation of organizational measures and technical means. Alexander Shoitov noted that it is necessary to make it economically beneficial for resource owners to achieve an adequate level of protection - for example, through targeted subsidies.

According to Alexander Shoitov, 2024 will not be easy. He called for being prepared for various unexpected situations in the period close to the election campaign in March.

Director of the Coordination Center for .RU/.РФ domains, member of the board of ROCIT Andrey Vorobyov estimated the growth rate of the number of phishing resources in RuNet as threefold by the end of 2023 compared to the previous year. He also noted that in 2024 the rate accelerated and reached a fivefold increase compared to the first month of 2023. Andrey Vorobyov called for mass training in the basics of cyber hygiene from schools, but these programs, in his opinion, need to start with the training of teaching staff, which the Coordination Center for .RU/.РФ domains is already doing.

As Olga Baskakova, Project Manager of the Coordination Center for .RU/.РФ domains, emphasized, Russia has achieved significant success in the fight against phishing. Thus, according to the data she provided, it takes no more than 21 hours to block a phishing resource in Russia, and more than half of the requests are satisfied within 12 hours. In total, in 2023, as Olga Baskakova noted, more than 55 thousand requests related to the blocking of phishing resources were received. She also drew attention to the accelerating growth rate of phishing resources, on the one hand, and the increasing complexity of such attacks, on the other. At the same time, Olga Baskakova complained that the concept of "phishing" is still absent from the legal plane, which makes it difficult to bring attackers to justice, especially if the attack has no financial motivation and, accordingly, it is difficult to impute fraud.