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Introduction
Most of the time, the relationship between cybercrime campaigns and malware strains is simple. Some malware strains, like the gone-but-not-forgotten GandCrab, are intimately tied to a single actor, who is using the malware directly or distributing it via an affiliate program. Other strains, like the open-source Quasar RAT, are “public domain” malware; they’ve remained the same for so long and been used as a Lego piece so repeatedly that it’d be a fundamental error to try and attribute them to an actor, a campaign, a victim or a time-frame.
It’s comforting to think of malware in the abov…
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