Cyber theft from banks’ clients rises 18.5% to 3.2 bln rbl in Q3

MOSCOW, Dec 2 (PRIME) -- Cybercriminals stole 3.206 billion rubles from clients of Russian banks in July–September, up 18.5% on the year, according to documents of the central bank seen by PRIME on Thursday.

The number of transactions without client consent jumped 40% on the year to 256,200, the regulator said.

The share of social engineering in such transactions decreased to 41% in July–September from 63.8% a year earlier and 47% in April–June.

The central bank also said that the share of the returned money of the total theft fell by 5.4 percentage points on the year, but rose 0.3 percentage points on the quarter to 7.7% in July–September.

(73.9746 rubles – U.S. $1)

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