Cyber Crime

Group-IB CEO will remain in jail – complaint denied

On August 18, a Russian judge decided that Ilya Sachkov, founder and CEO of the Russian-led Group-IB, will remain in jail.

Ilya Sachkov, founder and CEO of the Russian-led Group-IB will remain in jail following the judge’s decision on August 18th after his defense team filed a complaint according to TASS (Russian Media Agency). Starting September 2021, the Russian national has already spent roughly 1 year in prison.

According to public sources, his case may be related to the arrested colonel of FSB (Federal Security Service of Russian Federation) Sergey Mikhaylov, and Kaspersky Labs employee Ruslan Stoyanov.

As detailed by Bloomberg, Mr. Mikhaylov was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to 22 years in prison after a trial in which Sachkov was a key witness for the prosecution, according to Mikhailov’s defense team, which has accused Sachkov of providing a false testimony.

The company originally founded in Russia by Ilya Sachkov and Dmitry Volkov appeared in a questionable spotlight after the indictment by the FBI, of one of the Group-IB employees Nikita Kislitsin was accused in the monetization of stolen data.

Just recently, the company was banned by Italian National Cybersecurity Agency from working with the public sector and sanctioned by President of Ukraine.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Group-IB)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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