The deputy director of the National coordination center for computer incidents (NCCI) Nikolay Murashov during a speech at the information security forum stated that for the first time in 2020, the Special Services recorded attempts by hackers to introduce malicious software into the information resources of Russian medical institutions in order to encrypt user data.
According to him, there were also hacker attacks on the information resources of the Central Election Commission and Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Murashov said that the special services managed to prevent attacks on the services of state structures.
In total, over the past year, the NCCI has stopped the work of more than 132 thousand malicious resources. At the same time, according to Murashov, the main sources of cyber attacks on Russian resources are located outside the country: 67 thousand foreign malicious resources and 65 thousand such resources in Russia were blocked by the Center for the year. The attacks were carried out from Turkey, the Netherlands, and Estonia and were aimed at state authorities and industrial enterprises.
In general, according to Murashov, remote work has complicated the protection of personal data, as attacks began to be carried out through insufficiently protected remote access centers and vulnerable software. NCCI specialists also registered the sending of phishing messages, most often, card data were stolen through phishing.
The National coordination center for computer incidents has been recording for several years that the main sources of hacker attacks on Russian organizations are located abroad.
In late January, the NCCI center warned of possible cyberattacks from the United States. The threat of attacks in the Center ..
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