MOSCOW. June 27 (Interfax) - Information resources located in the United States remain the main source of cyberthreats to Russia, Nikolai Murashov, deputy director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents, which was created on the orders of the Russian Federal Security Service administration, said.
"An analysis of the information coming to the State System for Detecting, Warning, and Dealing with the Aftermath of Cyberattacks (GosSopka) shows that most attacks are aimed at stealing data. Above all, criminals seek to get information on Russian technologies in the defense and nuclear sector, energy, and rocket engineering, as well as information from state administration systems," Murashov told reporters on Thursday.
Slides stating that "information resources on the territory of the U.S." are the main source of cyberthreats to Russia were demonstrated at the briefing.
On average, "one-third of all detected attacks are targeted against organizations operating in the monetary and finance sphere," Murashov said.
A considerable share of cyberattacks detected by the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents is associated with the blocking of the work of information resources using DDoS attacks, he said.
"Bot networks from the Internet of things" are now used to carry out such attacks, Murashov said. "We were first faced with such an attack in 2015. It was targeted at the information resources of bodies of state authority. Criminals took over two million devices of the Internet of things in 50 countries of the world to implement it," he said.
In December 2017, the Federal Security Service completed the creation of the technical infrastructure of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents within the State System for Detecting, Warning, and Dealing with the Aftermath of Cyberattacks.
The law on the security of critical information infrastructure, which envisages the connection of critical information infrastructure facilities to the GosSopka, took effect on January 1, 2018.