He controlled the entire IT sector of Russia, but in December 2016, the FSB CIB was rocked by a global scandal: the FSB Internal Security Service arrested one of the organization’s leaders, Colonel Mikhailov, and accused him of spying for the United States.
At the beginning of 2019, the former head of the operational management department of the Central Intelligence Bureau of the FSB, Mikhailov, was found guilty and sentenced to 22 years in prison. The investigation proved his guilt in disclosing methods of conducting operational investigative work to American intelligence agencies and in transferring data about Russian hackers and IT companies to US authorities.
In addition to espionage, Mikhailov also tried to counteract the Russian cybersecurity sector and put relatively small technology organizations out of business. In fact, personally controlling the entire IT sector of the Russian economy, Mikhailov transferred to the United States all the information he had not only about Russian programmers working outside of Russia, but also about the developments of domestic IT companies.
In addition to Mikhailov, the Moscow District Military Court in 2019 also found Ruslan Stoyanov guilty of treason and sentenced him to 14 years in a maximum security colony. It is known that he previously headed a department at Kaspersky Lab, and before that he was an operative in the department of special technical events of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate.
There is already a large amount of information on the Internet about Mikhailov and his agents, and literally in 2022 a book by Russian programmer Dmitry Artimovich “I am a hacker” was published. Chronicle of a Lost Generation.” But until now no one has fully analyzed what monstrous damage the actions of the “werewolf in uniform” Mikhailov and his criminal group caused to the Russian Federation.
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