very, very clear with him. as long ing a as 2012 there was open source reporting in russia he crossed over from russia from being a hacker to working for the fsb, the successor agency to the kbg. he was making the pitch to other hackers asking other hackers to do work on behalf of the russian spy service. also, his own online criminal activity was complicated in a o-tin russian government operation. i ll quote this part from today s new york times. peter severa ran a family of computer viruses. a sophisticated voefg family of computers calledual edac and kelly hoss. the kelly hoss virus has been
instead they use them. they essentially piggy back on the criminal activity and take over some of that criminal activity for their own purposes. they are stealing information from tens of millions, hundreds of millions of users of yahoo.com. fine, that s a criminal act, they re doing it for profit. but russian intelligence uses that hack to specifically target individual journalists and opposition figures who they want to go after for political reasons. that s the way it works. and with this guy who just got arrested in spain, that particular overlap between criminal work and intelligence work for russia, that overlap is very, very clear with him. as long ago as 2012 there was open source reporting in russia he crossed over from russia from being a hacker to working for the fsb, the successor agency to the kbg. he was making the pitch to other hackers asking other hackers to do work on behalf of the russian spy service.
stories of how he handed off intel to the other russian spies who were in this ring with him and the drama of his arrest and family fleeing in the dead of night into the rezidentura, and the bugs that the fbi placed all over his house, all of this stuff has be fascinating color by one of the most lurid russian spy scandals in the past few years. but that bank and that spy scandal are turning out to be a pesky asterisk that keeps getting affixed to lots of things about the new trump administration, because that bank where he was secretly working as a russian spy, that is a state-run russian bank. russian prime minister medvedev is on the supervisory board. the chairman of that bank started his career by going to kbg school, the college that russia operates where people who are going to join the successor agency to the kbg. that fsb-trained chairman of the bank was hand-picked to be
son-in-law, top adviser. and so we know that he had met with this russian banker, a man by the name of sergey gorkov. we know he graduated from a school that trains kgb agents. can you talk about vladimir putin and how he likes to bring in kbg agents to come in and help him out? it s a little bit different. when the soviet union collapsed, this was a big feeding frenzy about who would get the pieces that were being dismantled? and of course, kgb agents and folks who had some idea how to operate in a competitive environment were right there and a lot of those became oligarchs. and the ones that didn t want to play ball with mr. putin eventually either were eliminated or put in jail or left the country. so what we have now in place is a system that, an economic system, if you do business with russia, you have to be aware you
it was called the central school of the nkvd for a while. then it was called the higher school of the kbg. that was a nice honor for hi. they named kbb college after him. then it became known as the academy of the federal security service of russia. fsb school, it s an actual college. it s a crypt to go ra if i institute. russia s fsb academy is in the news today because iis where this guy went to school, the fsb academy is the alma matter of