The pandemic has provoked the growth of attacks on mobile applications and sites, retail, financial services and corporate sector, said the company “Valarm”. Most of all — in 2,3 times — in February and may increased the number of attacks on e-Commerce 1.2 times increased the interest of hackers to banks. The attackers mainly the personal data of users who were more likely to use online services due to isolation.During the pandemic (February—may 2020), the number of attacks on web applications i.e. websites, portals and apps for smartphone and computer in which the exchange of information on the Internet, has increased 2.2 times compared to the same period last year, data from company “Valarm”. In particular, the number of attacks on the application of financial systems has grown 1.2 times, the corporate sector and production — 1.9 times, e-Commerce — 2.3 times.For example, the growth of attacks on banks in 1.2 times — a significant number-tens of thousands of attacks per day, more than, for example, the e-Commerce sector, says CEO “Valarm” Ivan Novikov. Although the number of cyber attacks is increasing constantly and depends on seasonality, news and even press releases, the growth over time of a pandemic can truly be called essential, he said.The companies in the sphere of cybersecurity confirmed the increase in the number of such attacks. In different segments of the growth is from 20% to 100%, said the head of the monitoring centre and incident response CSIRT Jet company “infosistemy Dzhet” Alex Malnev. In SOC ACRC in recent months has seen a growth in the number of attacks by tens of percent with the General increase in malicious activity by 20%, says the Deputy General Director for technology and development of the Angara group of companies Dmitry Pudov.If the site code executable in the browser is always open and available for analysis by attackers, in the case of applications is somewhat more difficult — it requires disassembly and extensive inspection that gives developers “a false sense of security”, resulting in mistakes that lead to data loss, failures in service and financial losses, explains technical Director Qrators Lab Artem Gavrichenkov. Attack of the app attackers more interesting, because unlike websites, they always contain some user data, as they require registration and are used to pay for services, said the head of Department of information security”, SearchInform” Alex Drozd. He explains the growing number of attacks increase in the number of users and new applications for businesses without offline clients. They were taken hastily, and it always has a negative impact on safety, he points out.In the case of the corporate sector the increase in attacks associated with the remote work of employees corporate applications accessible from the Internet, says the head of “Information security” IT-CROC Andrey Zaikin.During a pandemic, the number of attacks on systems of “Rostec” has increased several times, but about half of the attacks “very weak and ill”, reported in the “RT-inform” (included in “rostec”). We can assume that in half of the cases are inexperienced hackers, and perhaps even children, who have a lot of free time, added the company.For 2020 VTB is a constant small increase of attacks of various types, reported in its press-service. In Bank “Opening” did not observe an increase in the number of attacks.The General background of the attempts to launch attacks on the application were higher than normal, confirms the Director in support of information technology Lamoda Vladislav Diamonds. Most often used social engineering, e.g. phishing attacks on employees of the company. The number of attacks on the service “Yandex.Market” is not increased, the company said, don’t see growth also in Wildberries and Ozon.Yulia Stepanova, Dmitry Shestoperov
