Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate – Krebs on Security
krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/DarkSide, like a great many other malware strains, has a hard-coded do-not-install list of countries which are the principal members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) — former Soviet satellites that mostly have favorable relations with the Kremlin. The full exclusion list in DarkSide (published by Cybereason) is below: