2023-09-24 07:22:22
Most of the hackers in the world today speak Chinese, the second most common language is Spanish, Russian is only in fourth place, told in an interview with RIA Novosti, one of the founders and head of Kaspersky Lab, Evgeny Kaspersky.
“For the most part, hackers speak Chinese, then Spanish, Portuguese, only then Russian, English and broken English, Turkish,” he said.
According to Kaspersky, cybercriminals are becoming more professional every day. The company currently tracks approximately 900 professional cybercriminals.
On July 17, Vedomosti wrote that the hacker group RedCurl attacked a large Russian bank in May 2023. This followed from the technical report of FAC.C.T (formerly Group-IB). It was noted that the attackers’ goal was not money, but internal documents of the credit institution.
According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, the number of cyber attacks, as of early March, on Russian systems has increased by 65%. Last year, about 50,000 hacker attacks on Russian resources were repelled. However, if in 2021 the target of attacks was the financial sector, then in 2022 the attacks were mainly against government agencies.
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