Fragments at $ 90 million, election interference: in the United States found guilty of Russian hacker
The jury found it guilty of conspiracy, fraud using electronic means and fraud with securities. Klyushin is the only one of the five Russians who managed to detain. He was taken into custody in March 2021 in Switzerland, where he was skiing, and continued to be extracted to the United States. Four more participants in the criminal scheme, which, according to the investigation, brought them $ 90 million, remain at large.
Among them, the former Naval Intelligence officer Ivan Yermakov, who worked at M-13 and is wanted by the US government on charges of participating in hacker schemes to interfere with the 2016 US elections. His activity was also directed against anti -doping agencies. Klyushin company developed IT monitoring systems for the Kremlin. Created by Klushin M-13 specializes in IT development for media and social network monitoring.
The company's website reports that these systems are used in the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Governments and Federal Departments. "M13" in particular developed for the Kremlin administration the system of monitoring of the media "Katyusha". In addition to the technological company, Klyushin is also associated with the political telegram "Nezigar". According to some information, it has access to data on various major game operations abroad.
He was accused of hacking against IBM, Tesla and other technological companies. Klyushin's lawyers claim that there is no evidence that he has insider data, and the true cause of the accusations is ties with the Russian government. Recall that hackers from the Russian Federation broke NATO sites. Cyberexers of the Defense Alliance have already established that there is a hacker group from the Russian Federation.