Since the beginning of 2021, 35% of Russian companies have faced targeted attacks, when attackers monitored the level of cyber protection of a company and then selected the tool for attacks. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the information from Kaspersky Lab.

According to company analysts, data leaks from internal systems, as well as leaks caused by malware attacks, are the most costly. This list of the most costly issues also includes: misuse of IT resources by employees, non-compliance with internal information security policies, and DDoS attacks. According to the survey conducted by IBM Security, on average, each data breach costs companies $4.24 million.

Currently, there are no unified statistics on the number of cases of cyber fraud and the amount of damage to companies and citizens in Russia. According to Sergey Zolotukhin, computer forensics coach of Group-IB, the information collected by departments often does not coincide and does not show the whole picture due to the fact that the victims of the ransomware programs do not always report attacks and ransom payments, and also refuse to write police reports.

The calculation methods also differ. Ekaterina Kilyusheva, head of the Information Security Analytics Research Group of Positive Technologies, notes that one company can count mass phishing mailings as one attack, and another company - as several separate attacks, and both of these approaches will be correct.

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Sergey Zolotukhin, trainer in computer forensics at Group-IB

Ekaterina Kilyusheva, Head of the Information Security analytics group at Positive Technologies

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