“They are tired of him, but they are afraid”: what is known about the leader of the hacker group Killnet

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A new conflict is brewing in the pro-Russian hacker community. More than ten hackers and hacktivists publicly spoke out against the Russian group Killnet and its leader, known under the nickname Killmilk. He is accused of attacks on the infrastructure of the Russian Federation, fraud and numerous violations of hacker ethics. Gazeta.Ru tells what Killnet became famous for and de-anonymizes the identity of the group’s leader.

Under the mask of Killmilk

The hacktivist group Killnet rose to prominence in 2022. After the start of the SVO, she openly sided with Russia and carried out a number of high-profile DDoS attacks on large targets such as the US Federal Tax Service , the banking systems of the European Union SWIFT and IBAN, the American arms company Lockheed Martin and others.

At the same time, little was known about the identity of its leader, the hacker Killmilk, for a long time. In the public space, he formed the image of a great patriot of the Russian Federation and an enemy of Ukraine , as well as an influential personality in the Russian-speaking cybercriminal community.

According to Gazeta.Ru, KillMilk’s real name is ….