Cybercrime specialists will control the "New Year's Billion" drawing

Experts from F.A.C.C.T., a Russian developer of technologies to combat cybercrime, will supervise the "New Year's Billion" holiday draw of "Russian Lotto". This was told in the press service of the distributor of state lotteries "Stoloto".

F.A.C.C.T. will have to see to it that only sold tickets with registered game combinations take part in the drawing of "New Year's Billion". According to F.A.C.C.C.T.'s incident response and digital forensics specialist. Pavel Zevakhin, the experts will check the database of sold tickets with the database that will participate in the 1604th draw of "Russian Lotto". The experts will make sure "that there are no additional tickets in the database both after the end of sales and after the draw," Zevakhin added.

"The attention of the whole country is drawn to the New Year's drawing of "Russian Lotto", and additional control measures are another opportunity for participants to make sure that winning in state lotteries is just luck," - said the head of the center of development of lottery support "Stoloto" Anatoly Lizdunov.

The New Year's draw of "Russian Lotto" will be held on January 1, 2025. In total more than 3 billion rubles will be drawn, the main prize will amount to 1 billion rubles. The draw is also controlled by the draw commission, the Federal Tax Service and an independent control system installed at the organizer of the lottery "Russian Lotto" - the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation.

Since 2014, all lotteries in Russia are state lotteries, organized by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, and conducted under the state supervision of the Federal Tax Service of Russia. State lotteries distributed by Stoloto are a significant source of replenishment of budgets of different levels of the Russian Federation in order to finance socially important objects and activities, including activities for the development of physical culture and sports, high-performance sports and the system of training the sports reserve, thus making a commensurate contribution to improving the quality of life of Russians.