OREANDA-NEWS The Central Bank of Russia on Thursday, June 1, summed up the results of the first quarter of 2023. For the period January–March 2023, banks prevented the theft of customer funds by 712 billion rubles, according to the "Review of reporting on information security incidents when transferring funds" on the website of the Central Bank.

At the same time, the fraudsters managed to conduct 252.1 thousand operations without the consent of customers, their volume amounted to 4.5 billion rubles. The attackers stole most of the money through transfers using online banking.

"We see that fraudsters' schemes are becoming more complex, they actively use social engineering methods, forcing citizens to voluntarily give their funds, and use new methods of deception. To counter intruders, we will continue to improve our regulation," said Vadim Uvarov, Director of the Information Security Department of the Bank of Russia.

In the first quarter, the regulator initiated the blocking of almost 97 thousand phone numbers from which fraudsters called citizens. The activity of cybercriminals on the Internet has increased by more than 2.5 times compared to the same period last year.