Sergei Vovnenko

June 1, 2016

Mir Islam – the Guy the Govt Says Swatted My Home – to be Sentenced June 22

This post was originally published on this siteOn March 14, 2013 our humble home in Annandale, Va. was “swatted” — that is to say, surrounded by a heavily-armed police force that was responding to fraudulent reports of a hostage situation at our residence. Later this month the government will sentence 21-year-old hacker named Mir Islam for that stunt and for leading a criminal conspiracy allegedly engaged in a pattern of swatting, identity theft and wire fraud. Mir Isam Mir Islam briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi, an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking […]
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,” […]