Russian Cybercrime Forums Open Doors to Chinese-Speakers

From infosecurity-magazine.com

Security researchers have started to see a thawing of relations between Russian and Chinese and English-speaking threat actors.

The Russian-speaking cybercrime world has hitherto been fairly closed to actors from other regions. However, Flashpoint claimed to have seen a more inclusive approach adopted of late, especially on the Ramp forum.

“In October, Ramp administrators made changes to the forum’s interface that make it more accessible to Chinese-speaking and English-speaking threat actors,” the threat intelligence firm claimed.

“Forum sections are now in Russian, English, and Mandarin; the main administrator is addressing members in English more often than before; and there is noticeably more English content and comments – and even coming from some Russian-speaking actors.”

There are said to be around 30 Chinese users on the forum thus far.

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