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Malicious Life Podcast: Inside Operation Flyhook Part 1

Written by Malicious Life Podcast | Nov 8, 2021 1:47:47 PM

Alexey Ivanov was exactly the kind of person to benefit from the early-2000's dot-com boom: he was bright, talented and really knew his stuff. His only problem was the fact that he was born in Chelyabinsk, a sleepy Russian town in the middle of nowhere. When he sent his résumé to American companies, nobody was willing to bet on him.

Alexey came up with a brilliant idea: hack American corporations and then blackmail them in an effort to force them to contract his services as a security consultant - check it out...