Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in January prevented the theft of the banks by 1.5 billion rubles – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, Feb. 4 -. RIA Novosti Divisions Interior Ministry in the fight against cybercrime was only in January 2016 to prevent “hacking” offenses with possible damage of the order of 1.5 billion rubles, said Thursday the head of the management of “K” the Russian Interior Ministry Alexei Moshkov.

“In 2015, we were faced with almost all kinds of cyber attacks, and every year they are becoming more complex and sophisticated. Prevented theft in the amount of more than 1.5 billion rubles, one and a half billion of our operatives managed to save in the current year “, – said Moshkov in his speech at the forum on information security” Infoforum 2016 Postal and Telecommunications “”

Earlier, a representative. ” Alexander Vurasko at a press conference in MIA “Russia today” reported that the result of 2015 by consummated criminal cases was to prevent damage in about the same amount – 1.5 billion rubles, the increase in the number of criminal cases in the sphere of high technologies to the court, It was 37% last year.