Head of Group IB: Russian hackers are considered the most mercantile in the world

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The material is an interview with Ilya Sachkov, the CEO of Group IB, which specializes in computer crime investigations. The interview is initially controversial, since it contains assessments of such a specific social group as hackers on a “national” basis, but it is more interesting to get acquainted with the opinion “from the side”.

Americans are working more in the research vein: they crack for the sake of testing their own strength and capabilities. An American hacker is like a movie: a person endowed with outstanding abilities, who sets himself the task - “can I crack the new system or not that site?

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The behavior of Turkish hackers is motivated mainly by a wide public response. They, as a rule, do not seek commercial benefits, they, as they say, just to harm. Suppose Russian hackers work in groups of two or three people with a clear division of labor. One, for example, a webmaster, the other - spam sends, the third carries out a DDoS attack. The Turks simply gather in a group of 15 people and organize an attack on some large site, so that they can trumpet them everywhere, they say, “We hacked that site!”. They are experts in a variety of spectacular, but commercially useless hacks.
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Russians mostly use other people's works: they found out on a closed forum that this or that system was hacked, and immediately think about how to get money from it. At first it is discussed in closed forums, then - who is smarter - begins to work on this topic.

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It is also interesting to read the opinion of the interviewee regarding the rules of behavior and hierarchy in hacker forums and his equally inspiring statement:

- What is the level of professional knowledge of a hacker, so that he can start a criminal business?
- The peculiarity of the cybercrime world is that this level can be almost zero. In these forums, you can buy everything in order to create almost any hacker business from scratch.

Read the full interview here .