Rosreestr repelled more than 140 million cyber attacks in 2022

Over 140 million cyber attacks on the Rosreestr system were reflected in 2022, the head of the service, Oleg Skufinsky, said at a meeting of the final board of Rosreestr, which was broadcast was conducted on the service page in VKontakte.

“Over the past year, more than 140 million cyber attacks on our system have been repelled,” Skufinsky said.

The head of Rosreestr recalled that in accordance with the strategic documents adopted in 2020, a departmental information security center was created. According to him, today monitoring systems analyze 6,000 events per second.

“If we had not started doing this in 2020, today we would have a completely different situation. This is fundamentally important, we will increase this work,” he stressed.

In early March, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko at a meeting with young scientists, inventors and technological entrepreneurs of the world-class Eurasian REC in Ufa informedthat in 2023 the number of cyber attacks on Russian systems increased by 65%. Chernyshenko blamed Western countries for attacks on information systems.

In January of this year, Deputy Prime Minister declaredthat in 2022, about 50,000 hacker attacks on Russian Internet resources were repelled. According to him, in 2021 the target of the attacks was the financial sector, and in 2022 the public sector. Chernyshenko added that “many thousands of different computer vulnerabilities” have also been identified.