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5. These are always Russians
Fri May 12, 2017, 06:07 PM
May 2017

I've dealt with a lot of these over the last few years. They use the criminal Bitcoin system as a financial conduit and all of those I've seen used on ransomware have been tied to people using Russian email servers.

In this particular case, there's no evidence of political motivation, just money. This sort of thing could be stopped almost in an instant with just a few mouse clicks, but it seems nobody wants to do so.

Good orangecrush May 2017 #1
Which former Soviet Bloc country...... SergeStorms May 2017 #2
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