Flycracker

February 17, 2017

Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced

This post was originally published on this siteIt’s been a remarkable week for cyber justice. On Thursday, a Ukrainian man who hatched a plan in 2013 to send heroin to my home and then call the cops when the drugs arrived was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unrelated cybercrime charges. Separately, a 19-year-old American who admitted to being part of a hacker group that sent a heavily-armed police force to my home in 2013 was sentenced to three years probation. Sergei “Fly” Vovnenko, in an undated photo. In a letter to this author following his arrest, Vovnenko said […]
September 25, 2019

Interview With the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

This post was originally published on this siteIn April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. That individual recently gave his first interview since finishing his jail time here in the states, and he’s shared some select (if often abrasive and coarse) details on how he got into cybercrime and why. Below are a few translated excerpts. When I first encountered now-31-year-old Sergei “Fly,” […]