as a result of hacker attacks from the accounts of the Central Bank of Russia in 2016 was stolen 2 billion. “the Amount of attempted theft — this is the money that attempted, but it doesn’t they were withdrawn in full volume… and there is the money that is potentially impossible to return, that is, money that explicitly is gone attackers — to date, this amount is slightly more than 2 billion rubles”,— quotes Reuters the words of the chief of the main Directorate of security and information protection (GABSI) of the Central Bank Artem Sychev. He said that the hackers tried to steal 5 billion rubles.
the Central Bank managed to prevent the theft of 1.67 billion rubles, of which 1.1 billion rubles temporarily blocked financial institutions, in which attackers opened accounts with the goal of conducting unauthorized transfers. First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Ksenia Yudaeva said that it was “thousandths of a percent” across the banking system.
Yesterday, the FSB has warned banks that on Monday they will have to reflect a large-scale cyber attacks. The threat comes from Dutch servers the Ukrainian company BlazingFast. It is assumed that the hackers used a DDoS attack to paralyze the servers of major banks and mass mailing provocative TEXT messages and social media sharing. According to “Kommersant”, the banks have already received the instructions of the FSB and the Central Bank and, following them, block clients with Dutch, German and Baltic IP addresses.
read More in the material “Kommersant” “Banks are alert to breaking”.
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