Evil Corp: 6. Fatherland

About this episode

The episode investigates Maksim Yakubets and the Evil Corp gang's cybercrime activities and their connections to Russian security agencies.

Investigators hunting for Maksim Yakubets, allege he is working with the FSB – Russia’s security agency. They say the Evil Corp gang has stolen more than $100m from at least 300 victim organisations in 43 countries - but who is the powerful man in Moscow said to be protecting Maksim, their alleged leader? We follow his family’s journey from a humble sausage factory in Ukraine to the Russian high-life – and the frontier of cybercrime. Hosted by Joe Tidy, the BBC’s cyber correspondent – one of the few Western journalists to have met an alleged member of Evil Corp – and the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford, who spent more than two decades reporting from Moscow.

People in this episode

Hosts: Joe Tidy, Sarah Rainsford

Topics covered

• cybercrime
• investigation
• Russia
• Evil Corp
• Maksim Yakubets
• FSB
• family journey

Keywords

• Evil Corp
• cybercrime
• Maksim Yakubets
• FSB
• Russia
• investigation
• victim organizations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FSB, Evil Corp

Places: Ukraine, Moscow

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