Fired IT Workers Turn to Cybercrime? #shorts

Think about this. Um, individuals don't are not career uh cyber criminals still can do a lot of damage. Imagine this. Before the Russian invasion into Ukraine, a number of individuals uh from Russia called um their employers um in here in Europe, in United States, around the world and they were actually gainfully employed there. But uh after the Russian invasion into Ukraine, many companies almost all companies in Europe and the United States in uh within a week or two fired every single employee of theirs who lived and work in Russia. So a number of um not only cyber security but a lot of IT personnel, developers, system administrators, even help desk all of a sudden became

unemployed and very very angry at their employers. They were not angry for some reason at the country and the government because they're not allowed to be angry but uh they actually were angry that uh they lost their livelihood and uh they actually been most of them were uh making quite a bit of money working for um uh western companies uh in uh very uh poor uh areas of Russia. So these individuals uh had skills, technical skills and they had resolve to start joining activist movements. Think about this um individuals don't are not career uh cyber criminals still can do a lot of damage. First of all, many of these uh exit employees uh still held keys to

their employers. Um they had uh passwords uh maybe not their own but uh the group passwords or joint accounts. They understood well their infrastructure they used to support and develop and also they had unique skills. These are individuals who had skills, knowledge and definitely motivation in order to start all these attacks and they had a lot of spare time.