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The computer hacker’s guide to the Russian language – how Russia’s language fits into cybercriminal campaigns.
English-speaking hackers employ several strategies to target Russian-language systems, leveraging technical evasion, linguistic deception, and collaborative networks. For instance, Russian malware often avoids infecting systems with Cyrillic language settings to bypass local law enforcement. English hackers exploit this by adding Russian registry keys to mimic language settings without full installation, installing virtual Russian keyboards to trigger malwareβs geo-avoidance, and using scripts to set system locales to ru-RU (e.g., via Windows batch commands).