75% of All Ransomware Developed by Russian-Speaking Criminals

Out of the 62 ransomware families found active in 2016, security firm Kaspersky Lab says that 47 of these strains contained artefacts that allowed attribution to Russian-speaking criminals.

That means that 75% of all the ransomware families active during the past year were developed by a Russian-speaking coder, most likely hiding in one of the former Soviet states.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/75-percent-of-all-ransomware-developed-by-russian-speaking-criminals/