The Central Bank announced the monthly suspension of 330 thousand suspicious transactions by banks.

Russian banks suspend about 330,000 suspicious transactions every month. This was announced on February 18 by the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Elvira Nabiullina, during a speech at the Ural Forum "Cybersecurity in Finance."

"The largest banks <...> about 330 thousand operations are suspended every month. It's every month. Last year it was about 300,000," Nabiullina said.

She also noted that criminals regularly adapt to new cyber defense measures. According to her, the phone remains the main channel of fraudulent attacks.

In addition, the chairman of the Central Bank stressed that she had grounds for "cautious optimism" in the fight against fraud and cited data according to which the volume of credit fraud as a result of the measures taken fell by 40%. Nabiullina clarified that at the same time, the average amount of damage is also decreasing, amounting to 16 thousand rubles as of November 2025.

"For comparison, the volume of large-scale thefts in the amount of 200 thousand or more has also decreased by one and a half times during this period. Last year, in February, it accounted for about half of the damage, that is, these large amounts of more than 200 thousand, in November – 43%. We hope that this dynamic will be stable," she said.

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Dmitry Pashin, a lawyer at the Inter-territorial Bar Association (ICA) Klishin & Partners, said on January 27 that banks suspend transfers if the behavior of Russians in making them seems unusual, and also pay attention to factors such as too large a transaction volume, the time of its execution, or even the type of device used for the transaction.

Prior to that, on December 31, 2025, it became known that Russian banks began to block withdrawals of large amounts through ATMs, and then contact cardholders to confirm this operation. It was clarified that representatives of credit and financial institutions ask their client to confirm the withdrawal of money.

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