Threatening and discrediting on social networks
There are 4-5,000 bot-attacks on websites in Armenia a day. This is what experts of the field announced during a forum devoted to the current state of cyber crimes.
"The organizer of the bot-attack is sitting somewhere and directing all this, and the infected computers are sending questions to one website. The website can respond to one, two and a thousand questions, but not 10,000 or 100,000," Internet Society NGO President Grigor Sadyan explained.
Representative of the Department for the Fight against Cyber Crimes of the RA Police Andrey Yashchyan today told journalists that almost 80 percent of cyber crimes in Armenia are committed on social networks and that the main goal is to threaten.
"They create an account under the name of the injured party, post his personal data and offer sex services on his behalf. The authors of those types of crimes are mainly relatives of the injured party," the police officer mentioned.
Deputy Chief of Police Hunan Poghosyan said the police is introducing measures in the fight against cyber crimes, starting from police training and ending with the provision of adequate technical equipment, but had trouble saying how many cyber crimes are revealed in a year.
"Since this is a new type of crime and the service has just been created, many things are still being worked on," Hunan Poghosyan.
Reforms in the fight against cyber crimes in Armenia are supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
