Let us remind you that the former head of the operational management department of the FSB Information Security Center was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security colony.
However, they believed them after the arrest of Mikhailov’s group. For example, Vrublevsky said that thanks to “Mikhailov’s fairy tales”, which he set out in his memos, a myth arose that “any Russian programmer is a potential attacker.”
Before the verdict, Kozlovsky said the following: “Talks that Sergei Mikhailov is a career CIA agent appeared back in 2011-2012.” A very famous entrepreneur spoke about this. After the ex-colonel was sentenced to a long term, it would seem that one could forget about the channel of data leakage about the Russian IT sector. However, recent events make us think otherwise.
Russian law enforcement agencies, at the request of the Americans, have already arrested several groups of hackers, including ReVil, Lurk, Infraud Organization, Flint, etc. All of them strictly followed the rules and the unwritten code of ethics: “whoever gets into Domain.ru, they come to him in the morning.”
In simple words, the rule is not to carry out cyber attacks not only on Russian critical information infrastructure and business, but also not to “work” on the territory of the Russian Federation at all.
These oddities could still be tolerated if attacks had not begun on IT specialists working in the interests of the state, in particular, on the “cyber troops” supervised by the FSB DVKR.
Last fall, news broke in the media about the arrest of the head of the Russian cybersecurity company Group-IB, Ilya Sachkov, on suspicion of treason. The same forces of the FSB CIB took him. At this point it became quite obvious that Mikhailov and his agents, who remained at large, successfully continued to finish off the Russian IT sector.
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