Center for Security Studies

“Sincere about Ulterior Motives”: The Invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s Shapeshifting Relationship with Ransomware Groups

“Sincere about Ulterior Motives”: The Invasion of Ukraine and Russia’s Shapeshifting Relationship with Ransomware Groups

Author(s): Jakob Bund, Lucia Höfer
Series: CSS Blog
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

In this blog post, Lucia Höfer and CSS' Jakob Bund write about Russia's relationship with ransomware groups and the possibility of US-Russia cooperation for consultations on ransomware. They argue that Russia does not share an intrinsic interest when it comes to combating Russia-based ransomware groups that target foreign states and exert pressure on the US.
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