Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on Nostr: NEW: A group known as Cuba Ransomware or RomCom RAT (the name of the malware they ...
NEW: A group known as Cuba Ransomware or RomCom RAT (the name of the malware they used) is believed to be a group of cybercriminals.
But researchers from BlackBerry believe they are actually a false flag and the Russian government is behind it all.
“It’s a misleading attribution,” said Dmitry Bestuzhev, senior director of BlackBerry’s cyberthreat Intelligence team, referring to the links between RomCom RAT and Cuba. “It looks like it’s just another unit working for the Russian government,” he said.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/15/cybercriminals-who-targeted-ukraine-are-actually-russian-government-hackers-researchers-say/
But researchers from BlackBerry believe they are actually a false flag and the Russian government is behind it all.
“It’s a misleading attribution,” said Dmitry Bestuzhev, senior director of BlackBerry’s cyberthreat Intelligence team, referring to the links between RomCom RAT and Cuba. “It looks like it’s just another unit working for the Russian government,” he said.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/15/cybercriminals-who-targeted-ukraine-are-actually-russian-government-hackers-researchers-say/