Deputy Director of the NTI Competence Center

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"The situation with the surge and rapid decline of unauthorized access to information systems and services may indeed be related to the elections. During the election campaign, not only in Russia, but also in all countries where there is a high share of digitalization, at the time of important events - a referendum, elections - activity in the field of attacks on the information system appears," confirmed Grigory Sokolov, technical director of the IT agency Data2Good, expert of the NTI market "Safenet".

"Trusted Interaction russia whatsapp resourceTechnologies" at Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) Ruslan Permyakov is confident that the number of incidents will grow: "I think the third and fourth quarters will show an increase in critical incidents. I suspect an increase in attacks on government information systems and media in October-November 2024. By December, we can expect an extension of attacks on the country's critical information infrastructure. At the same time, there is justified optimism - I do not expect major successes from hackers."

Boris Nesterov, an analyst and researcher of cybersecurity threats at the Russian developer of cybersecurity systems R-Vision, suggested which attacks will be most common in the second half of 2024: "Among the various types of attacks, the most common will remain those associated with malware. Such attacks require fewer resources compared to other types, since they can be directed at multiple targets simultaneously. In second and third place in terms of prevalence will be attacks on web resources and the use of known vulnerabilities. This is due to the fact that such resources are usually located on the perimeter of an organization, and attacking them does not require prior access."