What's the connection between the Putin's war on Ukraine and the arrest of Russian ransomware gangs?

In the months leading up to Putin's war against Ukraine, something very very unusual happened.

Russia started arresting ransomware and cyber crime groups.

[Russia Arrests Hackers Tied to Major U.S. Ransomware Attacks, Including Colonial Pipeline Disruption](https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-says-it-raided-prolific-ransomware-group-revil-with-arrests-seizures-11642179589
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[Russia Says It Shut Down Notorious Hacker Group at U.S. Request](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/world/europe/revil-ransomware-russia-arrests.html)

[Russia arrests 14 alleged members of REvil ransomware gang, including hacker U.S. says conducted Colonial Pipeline attack](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/14/russia-hacker-revil/)

It's delusional to think that Russia suddenly started to care about the cyber crime against …

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