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Russia's Chaotic Privatization Led to Cybercrime? #shorts

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The end of Russia's planned economy led to rapid privatization. IT specialists with high skills turned to cybercrime as a lucrative alternative during the difficult period. #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra #AlixiaRutayisire #QuoIntelligence
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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 the really uh with high uh skill set and those people some of them decided to turn to cyber crime as an um lucrative alternative. Ive.