Invasion: A Brief History of Russian Hackers

In the summer of 2016, unknown individuals posted the correspondence of top officials of the US Democratic Party online, and Russian hackers, presumably working for the Kremlin, instantly became one of the main stories in world politics. Meduza special correspondent, winner of the GQ award for Journalist of the Year and four Editorial Board awards Daniil Turovsky had been writing about these people for several years by that time: some of them published the mail archives of Russian officials, others hacked government websites of neighboring countries at the request of special services, and others simply made millions by stealing them from all over the world. "Invasion" is the most complete history of Russian hackers: from Soviet math schools and post-Soviet poverty to global cyberwar and transnational criminal groups. The book describes a new type of power - but, as Turovsky shows, the people who wield this power face the same moral dilemmas, choosing between prison and poverty, feeling and duty, good and evil.