FSB was denied access to Kavkaz Center website

Kavkaz Center has figured out the hacker because of the hacker's own negligence. The hacker turned out to be the FSB of Russia (Federal Security Bureau, former KGB). And this is not just a groundless statement. Kavkaz Center has a technical proof of this statement. The FSB got caught because of its own negligence. But let's put everything in order.

Earlier it was reported that Kavkaz Center started coming under massive DOS-attacks by hackers since the beginning of the last week (since last Monday). While being on the territory of Russia, the malefactors used special servers rented for these purposes on the territory of the US in order to conduct the attacks. Kavkaz Center's technical specialists blocked seven proxy servers where the attacks on the server were coming from. But the attacks on the website continued.

And then last Friday at 14:07:06 Vilnius Time Kavkaz Center's technical specialists intercepted another attempt to commit an attack.

An unknown cyber-criminal, located at the address 213.24.76.8, scanned the server's ports and started another attack. After the attacking IP had been blocked, the hacker used several more addresses in this range: 213.24.76.0 - 213.24.77.255.

Having conducted a simple procedure to identify the malefactors, the website's specialists determined the identities of the cyber-criminals. So, here they are:

213.24.76.0 - 213.24.77.255
Federal Security Service of Russian Federation
3/6 Lubyansky Proyezd, Moscow, 103045
(NOTE: it is the main KGB headquarters in downtown Moscow)

Dmitry Pravikov
FSB RF
3/6 Lubyansky Proyezd, Moscow, 103045
+7 095 2248374
+7 095 2244441
pravikov@fsb.ru

Alexander Holushco
FSB RF
3/6 Lubyansky Proezd Moscow 103045
+7 095 2244441
+7 095 2244441
root@fsb.ru

After a thorough examination of all logins of the server, Kavkaz Center's technical specialists also found out that the first attack on the server on September 23 had been also carried out from the address 213.24.76.8.

The FSB agent was likely to show mere negligence by not checking the anonymity of his web surfing in both the first and the last attempts.

Or maybe, he just considered it unnecessary if he was sure that Kavkaz Center had nobody to trace the FSB's criminal activities. It is apparent that, after proxy servers had been blocked, the FSB agents used anonymous proxy servers for the attacks, but at some period of time they let their guard down and attacked Kavkaz Center from their real addresses.

Having precisely identified the malefactors, the Kavkaz Center administration made a decision to deny access to Kavkaz Center for the FSB by blocking it IP-addresses 213.24.76.0 - 213.24.77.255. Now the Russian secret service will have to use illegal ways to access the international Chechen informational website.

Furthermore, the Kavkaz Center board of directors is considering an opportunity to sue the FSB of Russia through the judicial bodies of Lithuania (since the server is physically located on the territory of this country, and the crime was actually committed on the Lithuanian territory). Consultations with a number of Lithuanian lawyers are already under way.