Russia, China and Iran are increasingly collaborating with cybercrime networks to launch a variety of attacks against their adversaries, including the U.S., Microsoft said in a report Tuesday.
The attacks, ranging from ransomware to phishing, were carried out for “espionage, destruction or influence” and involved cybercrime gangs working with these nations to share hacking tools and tactics, Microsoft said in its new Digital Defense Report. Published Tuesday, the report looked at cyber threats between July 2023 and June 2024.
In one influence operation, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) group used cyber personas starting last year to sell stolen Israeli dating website data, Microsoft found.
And in another case, Russian threat actors used new malware and appeared to outsource some cyberespionage operations to criminal groups, the report stated. Last June, one operation compromised at least 50 Ukrainian military devices in an apparent........