http://en.ria.ru/crime/20130910/183338519/Russian-Cybercrime-Market-Fell-to-193-Billion-in-2012.html
RIA Novosti
10/09/2013
NB: The headline has been modified to reflect that the information in this
story comes from a single, unofficial source.
MOSCOW, September 10 (RIA Novosti) – The value of the cybercrime market in
Russia dropped 6 percent to $1.93 billion last year, compared with $2
billion the year before, a top cyber security expert said Tuesday.
The government’s crackdown on some of the most active cybercriminal groups
is a key reason for the fall, Nikita Kislitsin, head of the
botnet-monitoring department at international cybersecurity company
Group-IB, said at a RIA Novosti press conference.
Illegal money transfers, he said, make up the largest share – 43.1 percent
– of online fraud attempts. The average amount stolen from an individual’s
bank account was 75,000 rubles ($2,300) last year, according to Group-IB’s
estimates. The average stolen from a legal entity’s account was more than
1.6 billion rubles ($48 million), the company said.
A reduction in successful theft attempts from remote banking systems was
an important contributor to the drop in cybercrime. Group-IB experts
monitored the activities of 12 organized crime groups during
investigations last year. According to Kislitsin, despite a large number
of theft attempts, each group made only an average of four successful
fraudulent transactions per day.
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