According to Intel 471, a cyber intelligence firm Stroganov is with some of the major cyber threats since 2001. Stroganov and his associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a. "Gaborik ") were also sentenced to six years of imprisonment in Russia in 2006 but were out in two years. "Our continuous monitoring of underground activity revealed despite the conviction, Flint24 never left the cybercrime scene," reads an analysis by Intel 471. "You can draw your conclusions [about why he was released early]," Sporaw wrote, hinting at the use of unfair means to get out of jail early. Flint is one of the big players of the stolen credit card market, working as a wholesaler of credit card data with cyber crooks who bought these cards from him in bulk - 100,000 pieces at once.
Various cyber forums say that Stroganov and his guys were caught because they broke "the golden rule" of hackers from Soviet countries- never target your country people or bank. Flint's " ..
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