MOSCOW, June 2 The country most attacked by hackers in the world is Russia: the chances that the average Russian will encounter fraud when accessing the Internet are already above 70%, and this the likelihood will only grow, said Sergey Golovanov, chief expert at Kaspersky Lab, in an interview on the eve of SPIEF 2024.
“”The largest number of information security incidents in 2023 in the world is Russia, and moreover, the chances that you will now encounter phishing or other fraud just by going online are 73-75 %. Before coronavirus, this chance was 30-35%, then there was a first jump – just during Covid, to 40-50%. Now it has exceeded 70%. And there is no reason that it will start to fall,” Golovanov said. .
Answering the question whether hackers are interested in countries with less secure infrastructure than in Russia, for example, African ones, the expert said: “Many countries in Africa are indeed less protected. We have an example when the Silence group attacked banks in Russia, but after a couple of years they successfully refocused on Africa. But now money is not the main thing for many hackers,” he explained.
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum will be held on June 5-8. acts as an information partner of the forum. 
Recent Comments