Software Piracy and Cybersecurity in Russia: Dangers, Causes, and Solutions

..., including some in the Russian Postal Services, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Russian Railways, and Megafon. Even the Russian Central Bank reported that some locations had been compromised “in isolated cases.” The disproportionate impact of WannaCry on Russian computers can be attributed in large part to rates of software piracy in the country. According to The Software Alliance trade group, 62 percent of software in Russia in 2017 was pirated, nearly double the global average. Because pirated software doesn’t receive updates from the manufacturer, all those ...