MOSCOW, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Cyberattacks against Russian companies are continuously growing, expert said at the 10th Digitalization of Industrial Russia conference held in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod on Monday.
"The number of cyberattacks, including with the AI use, will only grow. According to different estimates, an increase in the number of attacks in 2025 will be from 70 percent to 200 percent towards 2024," head of the Cybersecurity function at the Technologies of Trust company Maxim Ivanov said, "Further growth of attacks may be up to 50 percent per year. The number of data leaks and the number of attacks against the chain of supplies will also rise."
The integrated nature of attacks, rather than their number, is becoming the key problem at present, Ivanov said. Several technologies and methods are used at once, for example, advance phishing methods, Day Zero vulnerabilities and malware customized for a specific attack.
"Companies of the financial sector, telecom and retail are the most exposed. This is related to many factors: growing digitalization, development of artificial intelligence technologies, and insufficient security level of infrastructures," he added.
Meanwhile, Evgeny Charkin, deputy CEO of Russian Railways, told press that the railway system are constantly exposed to cyberattacks and more than 1.5 million of them against the company's infrastructure were registered since the start of 2025.
"We are indeed under pressure of cyberattacks constantly," Charkin said, "The vector is changing again and again, rather than trivial DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks, we started observing phishing more frequently, which is an attempt to use gaps in digital literacy of employees."
In regard of what has been happening, the company is improving its digital maturity, digital skills of employees, related training and exercise to respond to cyberattacks, according to Charkin. ■
