Positive Technologies: intrusion attempts using SI on Russian companies' websites rose about fivefold in the third quarter
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SI makes hacking easier and cheaper, and the share of such attacks grew several times over in a quarter.
According to a Positive Technologies study seen by Vedomosti, the number of intrusion attempts using SI in the third quarter of 2026 rose about fivefold from the second quarter to 1.7 million, and the share of such attacks in total threats rose from 1.1% to 5.6%. Protection systems logged 31 million triggers on suspicious requests linked to neural networks, 65% more than in the previous quarter. BI.ZONE and Cloud.ru representatives confirmed the trend of growing SI attacks to Vedomosti; according to RIA Novosti, the biggest jump came in August, at 3.8 times July.
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