Yakubets is a true 21st century criminal they named their company evil corp
he's earned his place on the fbi's list of the world's most wanted
cyber criminals accuse maksim yakubets of running a global hacking group called
evil corp the yakubets is accused of working for russian intelligence
with the stroke of a key in the click of a mouse committed cyber crimes across the globe
in may 2020 the law firm grubman shire meiselas and sacks experienced their worst nightmare their
computer systems had been hacked and 756 gigabytes of their data had been stolen including the dirty
secrets of their clients lady gaga elton john donald trump bono nicki minaj and many more
four months later in september bancoestado one of the biggest banks in chile was forced to shut down
all of their branches after being hacked the same year foreign exchange company travelex was
shut down and went bankrupt after being hacked causing thousands of people to lose their jobs
also in 2020 gps company garmin had all of their files stolen and had to pay hackers 10
million dollars to get them back all of these hacks happened in one year but that was not the
only thing they had in common all of these hacks were perpetrated by one organization
evil corp evil corp is a russian hacking company that brings in over 100 million dollars per year
the founder and ceo of evil corp is a russian man named maxime jacobets it's said that evil corp has
generated over one billion dollars from hacking jacobets and his hacking company is feared all
over the world despite the american fbi and the british nca going after him he lives openly in
russia flaunting his wealth so how did this babyface tacker become the most feared man
on the internet maxine jakobetz was born in 1987 in ukraine even though he looks incredibly young
he's actually 34. very little is known about his early life but it seems that when the
soviet union fell and computers began getting popular he familiarized himself very fast he
quickly taught himself how to code but after realizing there wasn't much money to be made
programming in russia he decided to use his skills for evil a few years later and maxime had become
infamous he is now regarded as the el chapo of the cyber crime world the only difference is
while el chapo sits behind bars maxime jacobites lives freely and openly flaunting his wealth and
power in 2020 the fbi announced a five million dollar bounty on his head jacobets and evil
corp have been hacking for some time but it was in 2020 when they made headlines worldwide and
caught the attention of intelligence agencies all over the world this was because of a malware they
made known as drydex drydex is a form of malware that specializes in stealing bank credentials
victims are sent an email with an attachment of a word or excel document after they download
this every single keystroke they make is logged the information is then sent back to evil corp
meaning that they know everything the person's typed from passwords and bank
details to private and sensitive messages in 2020 evil corp infiltrated drydex into
computers worldwide they targeted individuals but also big companies too they held their victims
to ransom evil corps said they would publish their victims private data unless they were paid
millions of dollars the entertainment law firm at grubman shire mizellis and sax were asked to pay
21 million dollars otherwise their celebrity clients dirty secrets would be made public
destroying the law firm's reputation in the process they did the same thing to banquestado one
of the top three biggest banks in chile travelex and garmin were also two of their major victims
they demanded tens of millions of dollars from these companies and yes many of them did pay
up but true to their name evil corp don't just target big corporations they also targeted schools
hospitals and retirement centers too that's right taxpayer money was paid to this hacking group
evil corp have also hacked many major american banks for example bank of america california
bank and trust bank of albuquerque first federal savings bank and many more the mastermind of these
hacks maxime jacobits goes by the pseudo name aqua online in russia he is famous for his flamboyant
millionaire lifestyle it seems he operates above the law he has a camouflage lamborghini and a
camouflage audi in leaked videos he is seen driving around doing donuts and he even does
this on public streets police sometimes question him about this but when they realize who he is
they always let him go it seems jakobetz really likes to show off how he's above the law
the license plate of his lamborghini reads bop which is russian for thief not only does he not
hide his criminal exploits he shows them off so everyone knows maxim jakobetz also owns nissan
gtrs and mustangs and many luxury homes in moscow and st petersburg two of russia's most expensive
cities jakobets also buys exotic pets for example he owns a baby tiger these can cost thousands
of dollars in 2019 yakibet spent four hundred thousand dollars on a luxury wedding for himself
and his wife but it's this wedding that reveals so much about jakobetz more than his luxury lifestyle
let me explain jakobetz married aleona bendiskaya her father is a former officer of the elite forces
of the fsb that is russia's version of the cia and many say that yakibets has connections to
the fsb so there's a pretty good chance that jacobits works for the russian government this
would explain a lot for example how he's able to live as a criminal so publicly the fbi was able to
gain video of maxime yakabit's wedding jakobetz had told the videographer to not film his face
but many of the high-profile guests were caught on camera and they included millionaires politicians
and people in the fsb it's safe to say maxim jakobetz is very well connected maxime's wife also
owns several companies for example many luxury clothing stores in russia but what sets evil corp
apart from all of the other hacking groups in the world well think of evil corp like the mcdonald's
of hacking companies most hacking companies are very small and independent but evil corp operates
like a franchise they have many random people all over the world hacking for them evil corp provides
these hackers with information and advice and in exchange the hackers give a percentage of their
profits to evil corp that's how they bring in 100 million dollars every year but maxim jakobetz is
only getting started he states that he wants to bring in 1 billion a year from hacking this would
make evil corp one of the most valuable companies in the world and possibly the biggest criminal
company on earth there are various high-ranking members of evil corp which have been identified
one of the key members is evgeny mikelovich bogachev he is a programmer who writes the
codes to compromise banking systems another key member is igor turashev he is said to be second
in command after maxim yakabets aleksey tikanov is another high-ranking member he is a programmer who
hacks banks another member is ivan viktorovich klepperkov he manages the technical aspects of
evil corp and the final high-ranking member we know of is yakuslav igorovich penakov he is the
money manager of evil corp tens of thousands of companies are infected by evil corp viruses every
year and the average ransom payment per company is 260 thousand dollars with this happening at such a
big scale you can see how evil corp brings in 100 million a year evil corp also run various cyber
criminal forums they use this as a way to recruit new members and affiliates they recently made a
deposit of one million dollars this was to recruit new members of evil corp another way evil corp
makes millions is via data auction this is where evil corps steal hundreds of gigabytes of data
they then auction off this stolen data to the highest bidder they do all of their transactions
in monero cryptocurrency a cryptocurrency which is much more secure and private than bitcoin
it's safe to say evil corp is the most dangerous criminal organization in the cyber world but evil
corp have made some mistakes along the way for example they advertised one of their viruses named
zeus on the black market they did this using criminal forums but they did not always mask
their ip addresses very well this led to the fbi identifying various members of evil corp including
the founder and ceo maxime jakobetz but just because evil corp has been identified this does
not mean they will face justice anytime soon it seems they're completely protected by the russian
government either because they have links to the russian government or because they're working
for them in some way after all maxim yakibet's father-in-law is a high-ranking fsb member his
father-in-law also operates various companies including a company that provides security for
the iraqi military and a russian oil company as well so even though maxim jacobets and evil corp
have been identified it's unlikely they will face justice anytime soon and they may well achieve
their plans to make 1 billion dollars annually whatever happens it's safe to say we haven't heard
the last of evil corporation or its flamboyant founder maxime yakabetz but now it's time to make
your voice heard do you think the fbi will ever take down evil corp leave me a comment down below
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