Russian hacker Mikhail Matveev, also known on the internet as “Wazawaka” and “Boriselcin,” is wanted by the FBI, which is offering a $10 million reward for information that could lead to his arrest, and has been put on a U.S. sanctions list.
But, according to Matveev, his life hasn’t changed much since he was outed as an alleged cybercriminal and put on the FBI’s most wanted list.
Earlier this year, the U.S. government accused Matveev of participating in “a global ransomware campaign” against victims all over the world.
“I have never been the author of the Hive and Lockbit project, I was only an affiliated independent person — by myself, my own master,” Matveev said, adding that he is not interested in ransomware anymore.
Since he was indicted and sanctioned, Matveev has kept a prolific life on X, formerly Twitter, given interviews to cybersecurity publications, and trolled the U.S. government by printing a T-shirt featuring his own FBI most wanted poster and asking his followers if they’d like to buy similar merch.
Matveev said he lost his finger in 2017 when he was installing a server cabinet that weighed 35 kg (around 77 lbs), which forced him to get surgery.
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Russian hacker Mikhail Matveev, also known on the internet as “Wazawaka” and “Boriselcin,” is wanted by the FBI, which is offering a $10 million reward for information that could lead to his arrest, and has been put on a U.S. sanctions list.
But, according to Matveev, his life hasn’t changed much since he was outed as an alleged cybercriminal and put on the FBI’s most wanted list.
Earlier this year, the U.S. government accused Matveev of participating in “a global ransomware campaign” against victims all over the world.
“I have never been the author of the Hive and Lockbit project, I was only an affiliated independent person — by myself, my own master,” Matveev said, adding that he is not interested in ransomware anymore.
Since he was indicted and sanctioned, Matveev has kept a prolific life on X, formerly Twitter, given interviews to cybersecurity publications, and trolled the U.S. government by printing a T-shirt featuring his own FBI most wanted poster and asking his followers if they’d like to buy similar merch.
Matveev said he lost his finger in 2017 when he was installing a server cabinet that weighed 35 kg (around 77 lbs), which forced him to get surgery.
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