Nation-state threat actors have ramped up cooperation with cybercriminals in the past year to advance their political and military goals, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2024. The use of cybercriminals by nation-states has served a variety of purposes, including to collect intelligence, conduct operations for financial gain, and to make use of tools favored by these financially-motivated groups, such as infostealers and command and control frameworks.

Source: Infosecurity