“The trend of recent years is the transition of criminals to outsourcing.
This refers to the “crime as a service” scheme.
In particular, proposals on organizing "commercial" DDoS attacks, renting botnets, selling or renting malicious software codes regularly surface on the darknet, "TASS quotes him.
According to Prokopchuk, the Interpol International Center for Innovation has been established in Singapore for the international fight against cybercrime.
In July, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said there had been an increase in cybercrime activity this spring.
At the same time, the Deputy Head of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that in the five months from the beginning of 2020, more than 180 thousand crimes were committed using the Internet, information technology and mobile communications.