IStories: Moscow IT company creates software to isolate Internet, spyware, and ‘troll fabric’ programmes as ordered by law enforcement
Vulkan, a small Moscow IT company, commissioned by the Russian Defence Ministry, FSB, and the Foreign Intelligence Department to create software to spy on Internet users, for Russian Russian cyber attacks, control a “troll factory” and isolate the Internet, according to an investigation by IStories and Süddeutsche Zeitung, as well as The Guardian, Washington Post, Paper Trail Media and other outlets. The journalists analysed an archive of spyware documents that an anonymous source sent them.