from Russians under the pretext of a currency shortage, as with artificial intelligence already taking over well as promising to issue a Visa or MasterCard card from a foreign bank. Vadim Uvarov, Director of the Information Security Department of the Central Bank, told Izvestia about this in an interview. He Also announc an initiative to oblige banks to return money. Stolen from clients if the transfer was made to an account from. The Central Bank’s database of suspicious recipients. In addition, a two-day “cooling-off period” may be introduc. During which it is allow to recall a transfer to an account from this database. According to preliminary data from the regulator, 90 thousand fraudulent numbers and 1.3 thousand phishing sites were sent for blocking in the first quarter of 2022.
Two-day “cooling-off period
— Since December 1, 2021, the Central Bank has receiv the right to block fraudulent websites extrajudicially. How many of them have been clos since then? According to your preliminary estimates, how has this rule affect the fight against fraudulent resources?
Almost five months of this mechanism’s operation
we have initiat the blocking of more than 2.4 thousand fraudulent websites. It also applies to portals in foreign domain zones. Most of the block resources were relat to financial pyramids, fake banks and what are the drawbacks of remote work? unlicens activities in the securities market. And although we had previously actively counteract fraudulent websites, now the blocking process has been significantly ruc thanks to the law — from several weeks to two or three days. Before the law came into force, a little more than 2.5 thousand alb directory portals were sent for blocking in the experimental format in the 11 months of last year.