"How the Ukraine War Opened a Fault Line in Cybercrime, Possibly Forever"

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has impacted cyberspace on all levels, from nation-state Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) groups to low-level carders on Dark Web forums. A new report from Recorded Future details the numerous cyberspace repercussions of that event. Cybercrime activity has changed, allies have become foes, power structures have been restructured, and more. According to the Recorded Future report "Themes and Failures of Russia's War Against Ukraine," despite "compounding strategic and tactical failures," Moscow presumably remains focused on conquering Kiev, overturning the Ukrainian government, and scoring a decisive military triumph. Russia's offensive cyber operations have been unable to complement Russia's conventional military success and will likely turn to targeting civilian infrastructure in an effort to degrade Ukraine's morale. Russia's continued reliance on proxy groups to achieve its objectives in Ukraine while maintaining plausible deniability has shed additional light on the connections between Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) and non-state actors, as evidenced by Russia's direct, indirect, and tacit relationships with cybercriminal and hacktivist groups. This article continues to discuss key points from Recorded Future's report on the disruption of the cybercriminal ecosystem by Russia's war against Ukraine. 

Dark Reading reports "How the Ukraine War Opened a Fault Line in Cybercrime, Possibly Forever"