Chernyshenko announced a decrease in the number of blocking of malicious sites in Russia

In Russia, the number of blocking of malicious sites is decreasing, which indicates the effectiveness of the measures taken by the state, declared Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

“The number of blocked phishing sites and those that steal personal data is declining. This suggests that the measures that the state is taking are working,” TASS quoted him as saying.

At the same time, the number of cyberattacks against the Russian Federation has grown, which is the result of coordinated actions by the collective West, Chernyshenko added.

How wrote earlier than Vedomosti, last year 40.5% of all traffic in RuNet was accounted for by bots – automated programs capable of performing various tasks on the network. This is 5 p.p. more than in 2021. “Good” bots (for example, search robots that take part in scanning and indexing web resources, and bots for checking resources for vulnerabilities) accounted for about 17.5% of total traffic.

At the same time, the share of “bad”, or malicious, bots in 2022 increased from 19 to 23%. These bots collect sensitive information about users, leave spam comments and fake reviews, click on ads, and carry out DDoS attacks.