Yekaterinburg resident Konstantin Kozlovsky, accused in the case of the hacker group Lurk, told the Moscow City Court that he created the LDCS program , which influenced the results on voting day in the US presidential election. this . reports Dozhd
Kozlovsky promised to prove the development of the program if he was provided with a lawyer who could communicate with technical specialists. The Bell adds that, according to Kozlovsky, he created the program on behalf of former FSB officer Dmitry Dokuchaev.
Members of the Lurk group are accused of stealing money from banks. At previous court hearings, Kozlovsky said that, under the leadership of the FSB, he was involved in hacking the servers of the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the email of ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. According to the hacker, he was given instructions by an FSB officer named Ilya. Later, Kozlovsky began to say that Dokuchaev supervised him under this pseudonym.
Dokuchaev himself, arrested on charges of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), denies his acquaintance and cooperation with Kozlovsky. In addition to Dokuchaev, the deputy head of the FSB Information Security Center Sergei Mikhailov, the head of the computer incident investigation department at Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov and businessman Georgy Fomchenkov were arrested in the treason case. The Bell wrote that they may be involved in transferring data to the American authorities about the hackers who hacked the servers of the US Democratic Party.