https://www.zdnet.com/article/north-korea-s-apt38-hacking-gr...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/politics/north-korea-cyberatt...

Connections between specific Russian financial crime organizations and the Russian government are much harder to pin down as people who try to investigate ties between the Russian mob and the Russian government often wind up dead. However, the Russian government is well known to be tightly linked connected to Russian organized crime[0]. Given the sheer scale of Russian financial fraud operations--Carbanak stole upwards of a billion USD[1]--the balance of probabilities suggest these operations exist with the tacit approval of the Russian government.

[0] https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2019/12/16/gangs-and-gulags-how-vla...

[1] https://securityintelligence.com/carbanak-how-would-you-have...