World damage from cybercrime in 2021 can significantly increase in comparison with previous years. This is reported in the article by the Director of the Department of International Information Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Andrei Kratsky and Third Secretary of this structure Airat Hamidullina, published in the magazine “International Life”.
in the foreign policy department calculated the estimated losses of the global economy from malicious actions of hackers. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this year damage from cybercrime can reach six trillion dollars. Diplomats noted that a coronavirus pandemic was a significant impact on the growth of cybercrime, because of which people translated the economic and domestic life sphere in the online space.
“The specifics of ICT crimes lies in the fact that they are performed remotely, often from the territory of other countries, and no state in the world is able to fight them alone,” the article says. Krutsky and Hamidullin stressed that the intense situation in the cyber-sphere is associated with the disadvantages of the modern system of international cooperation on the relevant issues.
July 27 reported that Russia included the United Nations in the world in the world the draft convention on countering cybercrime and the illegal use of cryptocurrency. In Moscow, they were offered to add new part of crimes to curb international offenses in the IT-sphere, as well as to expand the possibilities for arrests, confiscation and return of assets.