Russian Cyber Threat Origins Explained #shorts

If we want to understand uh Russia uh cyber threat landscape, we need to go back to the 90s with the collapse of the Soviet Union and uh which brought uh power vacuum and uh that left law enforcement uh underfunded and largely uneffective. Um so in this context the digital sphere was unregulated. So that created uh the perfect uh fertile ground for uh cyber criminality to emerge. And on top of that we had a difficult situation in Russia at this time uh due to the end of um the centrally planned economy and really uh rapid and coutic um privatization process. Uh so um we had a lot of people that struggled during that time a bit like what we saw uh with the

Kilnet presentation this morning. Um uh lots of uh people struggled but also IT especially that really uh with high uh skill set and those people some of them decided to turn to cyber crime as an um lucrative alternative and we had kind of the same thing with um intelligence officer that worked for the USSR. uh some of them uh were unemployed uh after the end of after the collapse of the SSR or some of them were underpaid. So the some of them decided to uh leverage their uh skills and their contacts and offer their services to uh criminal networks. And after over the years uh Russian intelligence agency they started to mobilize uh this connection that were

tied during this uh specific period. it.