Anatomy of network parasites

Continuing the Ural theme. Today there was good material on the resource of my Ural friend Fyodor Krasheninnikov, just about how the gopnik networkers mobilized squads of trolls and bots to flood the network with dirty tricks.
I highly recommend it and highly recommend it.

“Tupchikgate”, a scandal involving the publication of correspondence between Kremlin bloggers and their curators, which had already begun to subside, flared up with renewed vigor. This time in the Sverdlovsk region. Unknown hackers made public letters that allowed them to uncover the largest regional botnet working in the interests of Governor Misharin and his administration.