According to him, since the fall of 2019, the bank saw “preparatory activities” for cybercriminals.
“On January 2, 2020, Sberbank faced an unprecedented DDOS attack, which was 30 times more powerful than the most powerful attack in the history of Sberbank,” RIA Novosti quoted Kuznetsov as saying.
He said that the attack was carried out using stand-alone devices of Internet of Things (Internet of things).
The attack, as Kuznetsov pointed out, was carried out on two resources of Sberbank, the bank withstood it in an automated mode.
“Of course, there were no consequences. We immediately reported this attack to law enforcement and gave them all the necessary information, ”he added.
Earlier, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, called for increased responsibility for cybercrime in the financial sector.
In April 2019, Kuznetsov noted an almost twofold increase in the number of DDoS attacks in Russia.