On October 15, Group-IB, a participant of the Netoscope project, held a news conference, High-tech Crimes: Current State and Trends in 2014. At the news conference, representatives of the company announced the results of the survey, conducted by Group-IB, on high-tech crimes in 2013-2014. As estimated by the company experts, hackers from Russia and the CIS earned about $2.5 billion in 2013.
Speaking at the news conference, the Group-IB experts and invited specialists discussed the evolution of high-tech crimes in recent years and presented their forecasts for the near future. The speakers talked about the most common Internet crimes, including the DDoS attacks, email spam, personal and banking information theft, and illegal credit card operations. The experts noted that hackers have been quick to improve the methodology of their crimes.
“The information on the committed crimes, which is provided by the existing high-tech crime monitoring resources, is insufficient for making correct decisions and building a security and risk management strategy. It is unacceptable in advanced organizations, whose business requires a glimpse into the future and a strategic approach to risk assessment and security. Monitoring the company’s or the state’s internal environment is just as important as constant tracking of the external indicators of the cyber environment,” the Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov said.
Natalya Kaspersky, CEO of the InfoWatch Group and co-founder of the Kaspersky Lab, explained how leaks in the corporate sector emerge. According to her, employees are the main source of information about the company, but there is also a high risk of data loss through paper documents or physical electronic devices. Dmitry Bersenev, head of cyber security and licensed products promotion at Microsoft Russia, noted that a major cause of computer contamination is the use of unlicensed software, which often contains hacking tabs.
Speaking at the news conference, Pavel Khramtsov, board member of the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ, summed up the preliminary results of the Netoscope project and spoke about the recent trends in the analysis and assessment of the use of domain names for various, including unlawful, purposes. The recent ICANN regulations have tightened the requirements for top-level domain registries on maintaining statistical data on the domain names. In this regard, the experience gained under the Netoscope project will be very useful not only for the national domain zones .RU, .RF, and .SU, but also for the new top-level domains .MOSCOW, .МОСКВА, .ДЕТИ, .TATAR and many others.
