Vladimir Fomenko, who owns a server rental company known as King Servers. The company was identified in September by Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect as the manager of an “information nexus” used by hackers attacking institutions across the western world, including election systems in Arizona and Illinois in 2016.
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According to Novaya Gazeta, Fomenko rented computer-server space to another Russian entrepreneur named Pavel Vrublevsky, who ran an electronic payment company called Chronopay and in 2013 was convicted of cyberattacks on Russian companies.
Mikhailov reportedly testified in court that he knew Vrublevsky and his talents well.
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From Threat Connect:
Russian-Owned Hosting Service. Six of the domains identified in the FBI report are owned by King Servers (king-servers[.]com), a VPS/VDS hosting provider. While these IPs are physically located in the U.S. and The Netherlands, King Servers is based out of Russia and their website defaults to Russian language, as seen below. The use of a Russian VPS hosting service suggests, but does not definitively indicate, that the individuals behind the activity identified in the FBI report are Russian.