Catching ‘Hell’: Navalny Says Notorious Russian Hacker To Be Unmasked In Germany

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

For years, a mysterious self-identified “hacker” has boasted about wreaking havoc against prominent Kremlin critics, claiming responsibility for stealing troves of their personal e-mails leaked online and hijacking their social-media accounts. To date, however, the true identity of the individual — known by the online pseudonym Hell and arguably the Russian-language Internet’s most notorious alleged hacker — has never been publicly confirmed. But that may soon change for the pseudonymous blogger, who once bragged that “they can’t catch me.” A Bonn court on June 24 is set to hear a criminal case against the online activist that opposition leader Aleksei Navalny claims is based on materials he provided to German prosecutors. “Anyone who wants to personally get to know the hacker can do so just one week from now,” Navalny wrote in a June 18 post on his website. Navalny declined to give the individual’s name, but identified the blogger as a 41-year-old man. Hell’s targets have included the famous novelist-turned-Kremlin-critic Boris Akunin; the fiery dissident Valeria Novodvorskaya, who died last year; and numerous journalists and political activists prominent in opposition circles. Going After Navalny But Hell’s greatest impact on Russian political life was his alleged hack of Navalny’s e-mails […]

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