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Ransomware as a Smokescreen for Nation-State Sponsored Espionage Operations

There is a general consensus around the financial motivation behind ransomware campaigns. While this holds true, in this presentation we are going to look into alternative hypotheses where cyber-criminal gangs cooperate with nation states to target victims in order to steal data of value for the nation state sponsoring the operation, hiding the nation state attribution and the espionage motive behind the cyber-criminal gang attribution and financial motive.