“The reason for this growth can be many different events: from the improvement in the detection of crimes in the field of high technologies, to simply an increase in the number of crimes that are somehow brought to court, but the criminals are not punished,” Lukatsky explained.
The expert also recalled the appearance of a new article in the Criminal Code related to ensuring the safety of critical infrastructure facilities.
“Recently, many new criminal cases have been initiated under this article, which were not at all last year.
Therefore, this could also affect the statistics.
In the context of increasing penetration of information technologies into our lives, the number of illegal acts related to these technologies is growing, which will also affect statistics, ”the specialist said.
In his opinion, there should be an increase in the awareness of citizens, but, as the interlocutor of RT noted, "since on the other side of the barricades the attackers are well aware of their benefits and monetize their activity, they constantly come up with more and more new methods that we all fall for."
Earlier it was reported that in the first six months of 2021 in Russia, the number of crimes in the field of information and telecommunication technologies increased by 20.3% compared to the same period last year.