I Am a Hacker! Chronicle of a Lost Generation

Dmitry Artimovich is a Russian hacker: a professional in payment systems and programming, and the author of the book “Electronic Payments on the Internet.” He came out of the shadows in 2010, when a scandal broke across the whole country: someone paralyzed the work of Aeroflot by launching a DDoS attack on the company responsible for processing transactions within. Specialists needed more than a week to bring things back to life. That’s how the world learned about Dmitry Artimovich. Immediately, Russian and foreign journalists became active. Everyone started talking again about the terrifying and uncompromising Russian hackers: could they really influence everything—from global banks to the U.S. presidential election? Who are they, really? Are the rumors true? Are hackers connected to the state? And how does someone become a hacker in the first place? In his book “I’m a Hacker! Chronicles of a Lost Generation,” D. Artimovich answers these questions in detail—and in a way that leaves no one indifferent.