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Your All-Hands E-Book On Operationalizing Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)
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Online piracy is one of the biggest shadow economy channels. Criminals raise their profits by taking vast sums of money out of people’s pockets and entire economies.
The fight against this disease within the media industry has been ongoing for some 20 years, but it is only recently that the scale of the piracy business has escalated to such a colossal extent. Russian-speaking cybercriminal conglomerates are no longer content with income that comes solely from video content consumers in Russia and other post-Soviet countries. They have started branching out into international markets, mainly in developing countries.
The purpose of this report is to deliver a devastating blow to cybercrime: to expose the entire structure of online piracy, to uncover the key organizations that sponsor this activity and those behind them. Group-IB’s report contains confidential data, including information on individuals believed to be behind some of the key piracy industry players.
Copies of this report have been provided to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, Russian and international law enforcement agencies.
Symbiosis of gambling and pirated online trafficRussian-speaking cybercrime in international marketsShadow investors in online piracyUse of Russian banks and international payment systems in criminal schemesEvasion of technical blocking and lawful prosecutionExploitation of legal hosting services’ capacitiesTaking advantage of geopolitical tensions
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