Anonymous International is a
hacking group known for leaking
Russian government
The Government of Russia exercises executive power in the Russian Federation. The members of the government are the prime minister, the deputy prime ministers, and the federal ministers. It has its legal basis in the Constitution of the Russia ...
information and personal documents of government officials. They target high-ranking members of the government, large corporations, and media, and sell the stolen data. These actions are publicized on their blog, Shaltai Boltai, (, ), the name by which the group is also known.
Over a period of 15 months the group published information about Russian politicians on 75 separate occasions.
In October 2016,
Vladimir Anikeyev
Vladimir Fedorovich Anikeyev () is the former ringleader of the anonymous group Shaltai Boltai. He was detained in Russia in November 2016, and was later sentenced to two years in prison for unlawful access to computer information.
Early career
An ...
(), known under the
handle of "Lewis," considered the group's leader, was arrested and charged with unlawful access to computer information. In addition to Anikeyev, five more people were detained, among them one of the leaders of the
FSB's Information Security Center,
Sergei Mikhailov, and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchaev, as well as Ruslan Stoyanov, the former head of
Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab (; Russian: Лаборатория Касперского, tr. ''Laboratoriya Kasperskogo'') is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia, and operated by a holding company in th ...
's Computer Incident Investigation Department.
In October 2018, one of the co-founders of Shaltai Boltai,
Alexander Glazastikov
Alexander Olegovich Glazastikov () is a Russian co-founder of the anonymous group Shaltai Boltai. In 2017, he applied for political asylum in Estonia. In October 2018, he was arrested in absentia in Russia.
Early interactions with Anikeyev
Glazas ...
, was arrested in absentia in Russia.
See also
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Mikhailov case The Mikhailov Case refers to an espionage scandal surrounding the activities of the Center of Information Security (CIS) of FSB (18th Center), whose employees were implicated in high treason after participating in a number of high-profile criminal ...
References
External links
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Down The Rabbit Hole With Russia's Mysterious Leakers" Max Seddon, ''
BuzzFeed
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'', June 29, 2014
Hacker groups
Hacking in the 2010s
Information technology in Russia