The damage caused by cybercriminals to the Russians promoted last year to 200,000 million rubles (about 2,000 million dollars), the Russian Interior Ministry reported today.
“If in 2023 that figure was 147,000 million rubles, last year there were already 200,000 million,” said Interior Vice Minister Andréi Jarpov, cited by the Interfax agency.
The increase is due to a greater number of fraud with the credits, he said.
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Cost of cybercrime
In total, in 2024 the Ministry of Interior registered 765,000 crimes, of which more than half, 486,000, were due to cybercrime.
According to the authorities, more than 448,000 Russians became victims of online fraud throughout the last year.
According to the Russian Central Bank, the profile of the usual victim of cybercriminals is that of a woman between 25 and 44, resident in a city.
With EFE information.
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