'Marriages of Convenience' Between State Actors and Cybercriminals Provide Cover for Both

For some time now, intelligence services in countries such as Russia, North Korea, and China have used ad hoc relationships with cybercrime groups inside their borders to insulate their organizations from the repercussions of their actions, but some recent successes by authorities in the United States and elsewhere have shown that even that tactic doesn’t put actors out of reach.

“One thing that we’re seeing is this blended threat between state actors and cyber criminals forming marriages of convenience. The …

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