In connection with the threat of massive cyber attacks on the Russian financial system, domestic banks have obtained all necessary advice from the regulator. According to the results of Friday’s Bank of Russia meeting with the Ministry of communications and telecommunications operators, the representative of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation stated that the situation is under control.
on the Morning of 2 December, the FSB announced that next week should begin a large-scale cyber attack on the Russian financial system. According to the security services, server capabilities and command centers for cyber-attacks located in the territory of the Netherlands and belong to a Ukrainian hosting company BlazingFast. Criminals intend to make the chaos in the Russian financial system, sending provocative sms messages on bankruptcy and revocation of the licences of the leading banks, and publish relevant messages on social networks. The target of the planned attack was supposed to be the large Russian banks at the Federal level.
In a statement in response to the report, the FSB statement, the Association of Russian banks (ARB) indicated that the attackers could spread false information about the lack of cash in ATMs of some banks, the “leak” on the introduction of restrictions on the issuance of funds and closing of branches of some banks, and also about getting from the supposedly reliable sources of information about the fall of the ruble and possible restrictions of currency sales.
For Russian banks, hacker attacks have become a daily reality. In November a large-scale cyber attacks suffered five major Russian banks. According to “Kaspersky Lab”, the largest of at least five Russian financial institutions in the top 10 suffered DDoS attacks for several days, starting on November 8, 2016. The attack was organized botnets that include tens of thousands of machines, geographically distributed across multiple dozens of countries.
Representatives of the banking system said “the Tape.ru” that the main losses from potential cyber attacks may be associated with withdrawal of funds, identity theft, and stopping the operation of certain financial institutions. The chief of analytical management “project financing Bank” Maxim Osadchy said that the risk of suspension of some banks there. So, according to him, one regional Bank recently, hackers stole 100 million rubles.
a Famous example of destabilization of the financial system as a result of distribution of a panic of sms messages was the attack on the Russian credit organizations, undertaken in December 2014. Mass mailing of bankruptcy of the Russian banks in some regions has caused outflow of investors and the need for several large banks to urgently bring in a panicked regions cash aircraft. Market experts doubt that such a method could destabilize the entire financial system of the country, however, create problems for the individual Bank it can. But all banks are working to combat such threats.
Despite the fact that in the report of the FSB were not specifically identified were threatened banks, participants of TOP-10 banking system claim that have protection and are on alert. So, the head of VTB Andrey Kostin said to “Interfax” that the banking group receives information about impending attack “very seriously”. He also expressed confidence that other major banks keep their systems in readiness.
a spokesman for Alfa Bank Jeanne Kaplun said RBC that the Bank details informed about impending cyber attacks and potential information stuffing. According to her, for protection against such threats, the Bank uses multi-level security system. “FC Opening” assured RBC that the Bank “was built and constantly improved multilevel system which allows you to repel the attacks kiberprestupnikov”.
Mentioned in the message of the FSB, the Ukrainian company Blazingfast, the server is expected to be an attack on Russian banks, has already announced its readiness to verify their customers in the Netherlands and to assist the FSB in preventing possible attacks. Director and owner of the company Anton Onopriichuk explained TASS that received an official request from the FSB indicating the specific data and IP address, the company may conduct an investigation within 6 hours.
According to Manager of international business development of the company Group-IB, Viktor Ivanovsky, at the end of the year the Russian banking system is becoming very attractive to hackers. He explained RBC that the parallel sending of SMS messages and provocative publications in social networks, the hackers can attack the internal system of the Bank. Losing access to banking services, the clients decide to close the deposits that can be the target of such an attack.
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