Like in the good ole days of Windows 98 and antivirus era, a lot of advanced virus techniques in the wild came from the people who used to work for AV companies
(I also dare say: many of these attackers demonstrate a better in-depth understanding of packaging ecosystems than supply chain security vendors do.)
just because credit card theft and other types of scam are illegal
I remember how ddos attackers created "DDOS protection" companies to protect their victims against DDOS.
My theory is that people in countries without extradition laws to USA are going to spray the shit out of Americans. With spam, and crap like this worm, troll farms, and the like.
Also baseless, but people who work at SOC can notice an increase since some changes happened in geopolitics this decade.
Is this based on evidence, or are you just stoking anger at no one in particular?