Hacker from Yekaterinburg admitted involvement in the hacking of Clinton's correspondence

Photo: Facebook / Konstantin Kozlovskiy

Hacker from Yekaterinburg Konstantin Kozlovsky announced his involvement in hacking the correspondence of the US Democratic Party Committee.

A man is one of the main defendants the business of the group Lurkwrites edition The Bell.

Members of the group Lurkwho are accused of numerous banking hacks, were arrested in 2016 year. In August, 2017, Kozlovsky gave evidence in court, of which it followed that he had allegedly cooperated with the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) for many years and on behalf of its employees engaged in hacking in the United States.

Kozlovsky said that he “performed various tasks under the guidance of FSB officers, in particular,“ hacking ”the National Committee of the US Democratic Party and e-mailing Hillary Clinton, as well as hacking very serious US military enterprises and other organizations.”

The record of the court hearing was posted on page Kozlovsky in Facebook. The authenticity of the documents and Kozlovsky’s pages were confirmed by a source close to the defense, who attended the meeting, and a hacker's acquaintance.

Judging by the documents published, for the first time a man declared his work at the FSB in letter from 1 November 2016 of the year. In it, he mentions attacks on the servers of the Democratic Party Committee. Kozlovsky writes that he dealt with them on behalf of an FSB officer, whom he calls “Ilya”. Later, the hacker began to assert that under the pseudonym "Ilya" he was supervised by the major of the FSB Dmitry Dokuchaev.

Dokuchaev himself was arrested in December 2016 of the year. Dokuchaev, like Kozlovsky, comes from Yekaterinburg, in the past he himself was a hacker. According to the source of the publication, Dokuchaev got to work at the FSB after he was caught on a burglary and insistently offered cooperation with the authorities. This occurred presumably in the middle of the 2000s, when Dokuchaev was a little more than 20 years old.

Now Dokuchaev is in the SIZO and is a suspect in the case of treason. The details of this investigation are classified, but according to sources The Bell, Dokuchaev and three other defendants in the case of state treason, collaborated with US intelligence agencies.and gave them information, including the organizers of last year’s attacks on the Democratic Party committee. With these attacks began a scandal about Russian intervention in the presidential elections in the United States.

Kozlovsky argues that his detention is connected with Russia's intervention "in the electoral processes in the United States." According to him, he began to cooperate with the Russian special services since 2008. He writes that since the 16 years, he was "led" by Dokuchaev "and his company," and he "carried out everything they said."

In addition to Dokuchaev, Kozlovsky mentions the employee of Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov. Stoyanov is in the case of treason along with Dokuchaev and has been in a pre-trial detention center since December 2016.

In his testimony and letters, Kozlovsky claims that in recent years he allegedly received assignments from the FSB to “conduct events” in the United States and the European Union countries. He was involved in many other resonant hacker attacks, including the hacking of the servers of the World Anti-Doping Committee (WADA). But about this attack wada сообщил only in September 2016. By that time, Kozlovsky had been in jail for at least three months.

To establish the authenticity of his testimony about the involvement in hacking in the US is difficult. The US intelligence agencies stated in official reports that the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) was behind the last year’s attacks on the National Committee of the Democratic Party (DNC), but the names of the hackers were not revealed. Hackers associated with the FSB, according to the American company Crowdstrike which investigated the attacks on the DNC, gained access to the committee’s servers back in 2015.

Kozlovsky, judging by his page in Facebook, petitioned for a confrontation with Dokuchaev and wrote appeals to the FSB, but received from there an answer that the information indicated by him “could not be confirmed”.

In addition, the hacker tried to contact the embassies of the United States, Ukraine, Poland, as well as the secretariat Amnesty International and a newspaper The Guardian - but in these appeals the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service refused Kozlovsky.

Prior to that, about his involvement in the hacking of the servers of the Committee of the US Democratic Party in 2016 объявил man under the nickname Gucifer 2.0. He called himself a Romanian hacker, responsible for the attacks and the subsequent discharge of information. US intelligence agencies believe that Gucifer 2.0 - this is the "legend" invented by the GRU. The “Romanian hacker” itself in its communication with the media has consistently denied both its connection with Russia and Russia's involvement in the attacks on the Democratic Party.

What are the accusations of Lurk band members?

On joint with the Ministry of Internal Affairs the detention of group members Lurk - a total of 50 people - FSB announced 1 June 2016 of the year. According to security officials, using a Trojan virus Lurk This hacker group for 5 years stole from Russian financial institutions about 1,7 billion rubles.

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