The number of cybercrimes increased by 139% in the Mykolaiv region over the course of a year

In the Mykolaiv region during January-November 2023, 279 criminal offenses based on the fact of cybercrime were registered.

This was announced during the briefing by the head of the department for countering cybercrimes in the Mykolaiv region, Hanna Zabelina, and the deputy chief of the investigator, Pavlo Volovik.

For comparison, during the same period in 2022, 110 such crimes were registered in the region, which is 139% less than this year.

The most popular type of fraud in the Mykolaiv region is fraud using information technologies.

«As of November 29, 2023, 1,572 criminal offenses committed with information technologies were registered, which is 58% of the total number of frauds,» noted Pavlo Volovyk.

At the same time, the number of announced fraud suspicions decreased during 2023. Thus, out of those registered during the current year, suspicion of 388 criminal offenses was reported, which is 14.2%, against 23.3% of last year's figure (266 suspicions out of 1140 registrations).

Law enforcement officials emphasized that the situation with the growth of cybercrime is observed throughout Ukraine. They associate this with the state of war and the socio-economic situation in which the citizens of the country found themselves.

«Firstly, it is because of the state in which our country is. Secondly, it is an information war with the aggressor country. Many persons whom we expose in fraud are located abroad, namely in the territory of the aggressor country. If we take the social ones, then this is the socio-economic condition of the citizens, which leaves much to be desired. When social assistance ads come across in various groups, many people believe them and unfortunately fall into the trap. By clicking on this link, it is phishing, people do not end up on state websites, but on emulated real ones,» noted Hanna Zabelina.

We remind you that in the summer of this year, the cyber police exposed a criminal group that embezzled more than 2 million hryvnias with the help of phishing.