Previously, Ehacking News reported that on July 16, it became known that the Ukrainian Security Service and the FBI detained hackers controlling 40% of the Darknet. Since 2007, members of the group have provided hackers and criminals from around the world access through Ukrainian networks in the Darknet.
Intelligence service established that the organizer of the group is the citizen of Ukraine, a resident of Odessa Mikhail Rytikov (Titov). He got serious about hacking in Moscow in the mid-2000s. In 2007, he began to provide services to hackers around the world through Ukrainian networks, carefully hiding the actual location of his equipment. From time to time, Ukrainian, Russian, and American law enforcement officers found the equipment, confiscated it, but the hacker group soon resumed its activities.
It turned out that about 10 accomplices were under command of Ukrainian hacker, as well as dozens of intermediaries in different countries and thousands of customers. Among them, for example, Eugene Bogachev, the developer of the virus ZeuS, who is wanted by the FBI.
It is established that Rytikov sold his services through closed hacker forums and specialized web resources, claiming that his server equipment is located in data centers in Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Germany, Panama, the Netherlands, Belize, Russia. In fact, the equipment was located near Odessa, in one of the unfinished houses. The room was equipped with secret telecommunication channels and even had its own elevator.
“Nearly one hundred and fifty servers were seized during the authorized investigative actions on the territory of a private house with a hidden data center with a backup autonomous po ..
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