Dmitry Shchukin: “There are more issues with cyber fraud than we would like, and the level of control needs to be increa
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 6:48 am
Dmitry Shchukin: “There are more issues with cyber fraud than we would like, and the level of control needs to be increased”
Russia plans to toughen criminal liability for cybercrimes, Kaspersky Lab cites statistics showing that Russia is in first place in the world in terms of cyberattacks, and the financial sector is responding by creating special insurance products.
Dmitry Shchukin , CEO of UIS, comments :
"We are not in favor of tightening up, but in this case we chile phone numbers agree that there are more issues with cyber fraud than we would like, and the level of control needs to be increased. As an example, we will cite a situation in telecom related to a scheme for changing the caller ID (note: the phone number that is determined as the source of the call when a call is received) - seemingly harmless.
At the moment, insufficient regulation and the almost complete absence of liability for the person who changed the number leads to the scheme being used as a tool for unfair competition or outright fraudulent actions.
Several times we became hostages of such situations:
a big three operator put us in a spam filter because someone used our number capacity as Caller IDs for “repainted traffic” — the damage amounted to hundreds of thousands of rubles, there is no one to make a claim to;
our client's number was used as a number in a spam call, after which he received hundreds of calls and made a claim to us. Our answer that such calls did not go through the UIS network again led the situation to a dead end - who should we make a claim to?
a request came from law enforcement agencies regarding our client, an analysis showed that the call they were interested in, again, was not in our network - someone used the client's number as a caller ID for a fraudulent call.
At the moment, supervisory authorities do not react to such situations, since a huge amount of work needs to be done to find the culprit, and there is practically no accountability.”
Russia plans to toughen criminal liability for cybercrimes, Kaspersky Lab cites statistics showing that Russia is in first place in the world in terms of cyberattacks, and the financial sector is responding by creating special insurance products.
Dmitry Shchukin , CEO of UIS, comments :
"We are not in favor of tightening up, but in this case we chile phone numbers agree that there are more issues with cyber fraud than we would like, and the level of control needs to be increased. As an example, we will cite a situation in telecom related to a scheme for changing the caller ID (note: the phone number that is determined as the source of the call when a call is received) - seemingly harmless.
At the moment, insufficient regulation and the almost complete absence of liability for the person who changed the number leads to the scheme being used as a tool for unfair competition or outright fraudulent actions.
Several times we became hostages of such situations:
a big three operator put us in a spam filter because someone used our number capacity as Caller IDs for “repainted traffic” — the damage amounted to hundreds of thousands of rubles, there is no one to make a claim to;
our client's number was used as a number in a spam call, after which he received hundreds of calls and made a claim to us. Our answer that such calls did not go through the UIS network again led the situation to a dead end - who should we make a claim to?
a request came from law enforcement agencies regarding our client, an analysis showed that the call they were interested in, again, was not in our network - someone used the client's number as a caller ID for a fraudulent call.
At the moment, supervisory authorities do not react to such situations, since a huge amount of work needs to be done to find the culprit, and there is practically no accountability.”