State Duma Deputy: In 2021, “wild indicators” of cybercrime fell by 90 percent
Cybercrime rates in Russia have dropped sharply over the past year.
Russian State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In the previous year, more than 26 percent of all crimes registered in the Russian Federation were crimes committed using information technologies. After the state, represented by the executive and legislative branches of government, began to actively resist this evil, the explosive growth began to decline.
Yes, no one is saying that today IT crime is a thing of the past or does not pose a huge threat to the defense, to the development of our society, to the protection of our citizens and the country's economy, but the numbers indicate a sharp decline in growth. Not crime itself, but growth,” he noted.
“Last year 2021, statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs show us that the increase in cybercrime was recorded at less than 2 percent. And in 2020, in relation to 2021, the same growth was recorded - think about this figure - 91 percent. This means that we were able to somehow curb the wild explosive growth of cybercrime,” said Khinshtein.
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