“According to preliminary estimates, the damage this year may amount to 3.5-3.6 trillion rubles,” TASS quoted him as saying.

He said that in 2019, such losses amounted to about 2.5 trillion rubles.

Kuznetsov said earlier that in early January, Sberbank underwent the most powerful DDOS attack in its history, which was repelled.

As noted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the damage from cybercrime in the country in January - September 2019 exceeded 10 billion rubles.