Big data technologies will bring 4.2 trillion rubles to the Russian economics by 2024. Also the percentage of data in different sphere of economics, available for analyses, will be increased significantly. The technologies need 195 billion rubles to be invested for their development.

Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, published a technical report "Silence 2.0: going global" on the crimes of hackers Silence. According to Group-IB, the confirmed amount of thefts by Silence group from June 2016 to June 2019 amounted to 272 million rubles. The victims of Silence have already become Russian banks, but the new report recorded a significant expansion of the geography of their crimes: group-IB analysts revealed the Silence attacks in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia and the CIS.

The researchers compared the prices of stolen customer data of various Russian banks in the darknet. The data of one customer of the Otkritie bank is sold for 200 rubles while the data of one Sberbank client is estimated at three rubles.

Analysts made a conclusion that 9 out of 10 attacks on IoT devices are connected with the use of unlicensed software or weak password policy of users. Along with this, the number of potential treats increased twice for 2018.

The volume of Russian market of IT services has become 7.2% higher and counts 4.84 billion dollars by the end of 2018, according to IDC researchers. They mark that import substitution in the industry is picking up its speed and they wait for the active phase of this process in 2019-2020, when legislative rules will begin to act in full measure. However such giants like Rosneft, Sberbank, Lukoil, Gazprom neft, MTS, RZD, Rosatom and Transneft can become a constraining factor for development of the Russian market of IT services.