US jury finds Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin guilty of hacking into US computer networks and obtaining classified information
This is another victim of Sergei Mikhailov, the former head of the operations department of the Information Security Center of the FSB. 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-class 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, founder of ChronoPay. He was accused of a DDoS attack on a competitor, the Assist payment system. In October 2016, on a tip from the American authorities, another Russian was seized – Yevgeny Nikulin. And last year – the owner of the company “M13” 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. Ilya Sachkov, the founder of Group-IB, is in jail, whose testimony became one of the main ones against Mikhailov. He was taken by all the same forces of the Central Security Bureau of the FSB, which was headed by Mikhailov.
The Klyushin case shows that Mikhailov continues to finish off the Russian IT sector, even while behind bars.
