It looks like most people have already responded. While my comment was poorly worded, statistically the majority of large botnets like Coreflood, Storm, BredoL

It looks like most people have already responded. While my comment was poorly worded, statistically the majority of large botnets like Coreflood, Storm, BredoLab, Rustock, Kelihos are of Russian origin. Even the botnet we are discussing was first seen in Russia. To comment on a couple of your points 2 - With Stuxnet, I think everyone agrees that US/Israel is to blame. The Russian connection is made because aside from the Iranians, the Russians are the only ones that had access to the facility, and they built the place. A Russian spy is a more likely culprit than a US-Iranian scientist double-agent sabotaging his own facility with results that could kill all of his co-workers. 4- No-one is talking under-employed. These criminals make more money than they ever would at any other job selling access to their botnet, advertising, spamming, installing fake virus software, stealing credit cards, etc. etc. This gives rise to entities like the Russian Business Network (RBN) Anyway, I meant no offense, if only americans or brits were clever enough to create a similar profile or stereotype, but I think some script kids guessing passwords pales in comparison to outsmarting the worlds largest software vendors and security researchers.