This reads less like “hacking” and more like an optimized business.

Clear specialization, outsourcing, and reinvestment — very similar to how startups scale.

▲ kgeist 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Found his record in Russia's official company registry. This is what he officially does as an entepreneur:

  56.10 — Restaurant activities and food delivery services

  47.23 — Retail sale of fish, crustaceans, and mollusks in specialized stores

  47.25.12 — Retail sale of beer in specialized stores

  47.25.2 — Retail sale of soft drinks in specialized stores

  47.29.39 — Retail sale of other food products in specialized stores, not included in other groups

  68.20 — Lease and management of own or leased real estate

Money is reinvested into selling beer and fish :) Interestingly, he registered all that in 2019, just when the ransoms started.

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ivan_gammel 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Classic money laundering.

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ecshafer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I find it entertaining that even as part of a Russian hacking gang, the real threat is the Russian tax authorities. Regardless of how you got the money, need to pay the taxes.

	▲	diath 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's not specific to Russia, almost every country in the world requires you to report illegal income for tax purposes, including the US.

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tokai 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 56.10 — Restaurant activities and food delivery services

That one is a classic for russian criminals and warlords.

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randomNumber7 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This has nothing to do with russia. All over the world it's an obvious choice to use it for money laundering.

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tokai an hour ago | parent [-]

Yevgeny Prigozhin was well known for his restaurants and catering businesses.

	▲	randomNumber7 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And you don't understand simple logic.

▲ raverbashing 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ah yes a business like the mafia

	▲	tgv 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The parent commenter has apparently never heard of organized crime.

▲ wat10000 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Go look at the al Qaeda emails recovered from the raid that killed bin Laden and you'll find all the same stuff. Turns out that the way businesses operate is just a good way to operate human organizations in general, whether their goal is to sell widgets or blow up infidels.