Russian spies of gru were expelled? Hundreds of names linked to an elite group were found after the failed...
Russian spies of gru were expelled? Hundreds of names linked to an elite group were found after the failed hack operation
.The names of 305 people linked to the elite Kremlin piracy unit were discovered online after investigators followed a paper trail left by a Russian spy.
Aleksei Morenets, one of seven Russian citizens who were named by the FBI this week in an indictment in which they were accused of "alleged roles in piracy and related influence and disinformation operations," was Discovered by the Bellingcat news research website. to be the owner of a registered automobile in the direction of Moscow of the Military Unit 26165, that according to the EE. UU is the cyber warfare department of Glavnoe Razvedytalnoe Upravlenie, The Russian intelligence agency. Morenets was caught trying to penetrate a computer network belonging to a chemical weapons watchdog in the Netherlands.
The diplomatic passport of Aleksei Morenets, who was expelled from the Netherlands for allegedly trying to hack into a chemical surveillance network.
(AP / Dutch Ministry of Defense)The Dutchman posted an image of his passport on Thursday and Bellingcat reported that a listing in a Russian car registration database that contained the name of Morenets had the same passport number seen in the photo.
The website then entered the address on that list, Komsomolsky Prospekt 20, into the database and discovered another 305 people with registered vehicles in the same location. Those people, they said, are between 27 and 53 years old.
"If these 305 people, whose complete personal data are available in the car registration database consulted by Bellingcat, are in fact official or affiliated to GRU Military Unit 26165, their inclusion in a public access database can constitute one of the largest violations of "Personal data of an intelligence service in recent history," he wrote.
The website reported that each of the listings contained a passport and telephone numbers. But the authenticity of those numbers has not been independently verified. It is also not clear what level of connection the names have in each list with the Russian piracy unit, apart from having the same address.
Morenets is among the four Russians arrested in the Netherlands in April after a failed operation.
The back of a rental car full of piracy equipment that belonged to four Russians who were arrested in the Netherlands in April.
(AP / Dutch Ministry of Defense)The FBI allegation alleged that Morenets previously worked in Brazil, where he traveled twice to Rio de Janeiro to try to break the networks used by anti-doping officials, who were investigating Russia, before and during the 2016 Olympic Games. According to the indictment, more Later he went to Lausanne, Switzerland, and checked into a hotel near where a senior anti-doping official was staying and helped others access the free Wi-Fi connection.
However, Morenets was arrested in April in the parking lot of a Marriott hotel in The Hague. He and Alexey Minin, Oleg Sotnikov and Yevgeny Serebryakov, all said that the FBI was part of the GRU, were ambushed and detained by Dutch counterintelligence agents while trying to enter the Wi-Fi of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
The men were expelled from the Netherlands instead of being arrested, because they were traveling with diplomatic passports, according to the Associated Press.
Yesterday, the Dutch posted photos of the men's numbered diplomatic passports sequentially of the men, electronic search equipment in the trunk of their car and samples of euros and $ 100 bills. But among the most damning evidence was a taxi receipt allegedly impounded Morenets and that showed a trip of April 10 from the headquarters of GRU in Moscow to the international airport of the capital.
A few hours after the name of Morenets was made public, the Russian news website RBC arrived at the taxi company that appears on the receipt and confirmed its authenticity.
This image published by the Dutch Ministry of Defense shows a combination of a taxi receipt and a map, with a trip from a street next to the GRU headquarters to the Sheremyetevo airport in Moscow, which is in possession of one of the four Russians who were expelled from the Netherlands. for supposedly trying to hack the chemical surveillance network.
Serebryakov, 37, listed by the FBI as one of the other piracy specialists on the GRU site, seems to enjoy a discreet lifestyle that combines amateur sports and high-level cryptography.
He played in the Russian Amateur Football League between 2011 and 2012, according to the group's website. Serebryakov placed the "free agent" as his affiliation on the league website and appears to have continued to change teams, but he always played for those located in northwest Moscow. He is close to the group of experts from the Ministry of Defense where he was working at the time and wrote a 16-page research paper on cryptography published in 2014 and still available online.
The Ministry of Defense describes the think tank, the Special Investigation Center, as being involved in the investigation of "communications security and information systems".
In his research, Serebryakov used an email address that referred to "Casey Ryback," a character played by Steven Seagal in the action films "Under Siege."
Serebryakov and Morenets also seem to have similar travel documents. The photos of the Dutch Ministry of Defense show that Serebryakov's passport is only one digit from that of Morenets.
It is said that Minin, a 40-year-old man with a short black beard, rented the modest team sedan in Holland. The records show that he performed messaging services for the state company that administers the state graduation exams in Russia. A June spreadsheet shows Minin handing out exams to a high school in southeast Moscow and lists him as an employee of a state "special communications" department.
The car registration database shows that Minin listed 50 Narodnogo Opolcheniya and Military Unit 22177 as his domicile. The four-story beige and yellow building in the direction is surrounded by a fence with the five-pointed star of the Ministry of Defense, according to the Associated Press. It is the home of the Military Academy of the Ministry of Defense, one of the most prestigious schools in Russia for military intelligence officers.
the Three other men named in the indictment. - Dmitriy Badin, Artem Malyshev and Ivan Yermakov - are wanted by the FBI for many of the same charges that Morenets, Minin, Sotnikov and Serebryakov face, including: Conspiracy to commit a crime against the United States, Aggravated identity theft and Conspiracy to commit money laundering
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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