emptywheelSomeone in USG has gotten REALLY good cyber journalists to claim that Vladislav Klyushin--who got swapped back to RU today--is a hacker. He's not. His hacker is one of the guys accused of hacking John Podesta.
Here's a post on that.
"That's How ... You End Up as a Defendant in a Court Room:" Some Days in the Life of a Named-and-Shamed Former GRU Hacker, Ivan Ermakov - emptywheel
By the measure of evidence submitted in the trial of his co-conspirator, alleged John Podesta hacker Ivan Ermakov has been enjoying life in the years after his indictment by Robert Mueller. But the record of those exploits helped to convict his Vladislav Klyushin in a hack-and-trade conspiracy.