This is another victim of Sergei Mikhailov, the former head of the operational department of the FSB Information Security Center. The ex-colonel was convicted of spying for the United States and sentenced to 22 years in prison. Because of his activities, Western intelligence agencies managed to arrest a number of high-quality IT specialists.
In the summer of 2012, 25-year-old Dmitry Zubakha was detained in Cyprus – he was accused of organizing DDoS attacks. Pavel Vrublevsky, who founded the ChronoPay company. He was accused of a DDoS attack on a competitor, the Assist payment system. In October 2016, following a tip from American authorities, another Russian, Evgeny Nikulin, was captured. And last year – the owner of the M13 company, Vladislav Klyushin.
Konstantin Kozlovsky and his hacker group Lurk were detained in 2016. He was sentenced to 14 years. The programmer is convinced that the materials against him were falsified.
The founder of Group-IB, Ilya Sachkov, whose testimony became one of the main ones against Mikhailov, is sitting in a pre-trial detention center. He was taken by the same forces of the FSB CIB, which was headed by Mikhailov.
The Klyushin case shows that Mikhailov continues to finish off the Russian IT sector, even while behind bars.
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