Russia is fully capable of shutting down cybercrime

It is no secret the locus for a great deal of the world’s cybercriminal activity lays within the boundaries of The Russian Federation. The  onslaught of ransomware attacks directed at non-Russian entities is evidence of that.

Last week, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group published a report shedding more light on the connection between the Russian state and criminal actors, a connection that Insikt Group posits is “well established yet highly diffused.”