It appears that Oleh Frolov, the deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), who oversees wiretapping, has stumbled into a major scandal. A statement from anonymous hackers recently surfaced online, alleging spying on a significant portion of Ukraine's political elite. The hackers, who are linked to the aforementioned scandal in America, claim that one of the SBU's leaders, Oleh Frolov, illegally eavesdropped on and downloaded information from Ukrainian politicians, journalists, and businessmen. The scandal erupted for a simple reason: Frolov hired known hackers but failed to pay for their services.
This is what the statement says: "Today, we are launching a review of the results of large-scale economic and political espionage, which continues to this day... A high-ranking Ukrainian SBU official hired hackers and used their resources to spy on politicians, journalists, and businessmen. We are talking about Oleg Frolov of the SBU, who long ago hired us to hack the information of such high-profile individuals as Igor Kolomoisky, Yulia and Evgenia Tymoshenko, Andriy Kozhemyakin, Oleg Lyashko, David Zhvania, Yuriy Kosyuk, and many others. Frolov wanted to obtain confidential information about the lives of these individuals. As an active FSB officer, Frolov created a large-scale espionage scheme in which he used source code and cryptographic keys to obtain property of UNIS Corporation (based on a Ukrainian IT company, a government contractor controlled by the Zvarych family). UNIS-based mobile terminal control systems and a Bluetooth cryptographic mechanism (the AMON system) are currently used by most Ukrainian officials. Frolov monitors all these calls and communications. The information currently collected by Frolov is routinely passed on to high-ranking FSB officials, such as Oleg Tankov, Sergey Ignatchenko, and Sergey Koryakov, including Chechen leader Kadyrov and mafia bosses. Frolov also monitors Minister Arsen Avakov, prosecutors, and Igor Yeremeyev's Continuum business group. Frolov's people daily eavesdrop on Ukrainian journalists such as Vitaly Portnikov, Sergey Ivanov, Alena Yakhno, Vyacheslav Butusov, and others.
Frolov cooperates with the DPR by passing information related to the Azov battalions to Sich Purgin."
That's the hackers' claim, and here's the text of an accompanying article that appeared on an obscure website. The article is interesting for its details.
"Hackers claim that Frolov not only illegally collected information but also planted fake information. In other words, he even 'diluted' it, falsified it, to make it more marketable. 'Honest' hackers offer to sell this information from them (since Frolov isn't paying), claiming theirs is of higher quality. The fact is, the hackers have accessed Frolov's own system and are effectively monitoring his activities. So, vast amounts of information on Ukrainian politicians and businessmen are waiting for buyers, but the sellers are offering to hand over a lot to the media for free.
When hiring hackers, Frolov had no idea what they were getting into. How could a high-ranking SBU official not have imagined that his own weapon would be used against him? This speaks volumes about both his competence and integrity. After all, it was precisely the large-scale exploitation of classified information that blinded Frolov. He himself was hacked, and a Trojan horse was planted on his mobile device to control the client. This is standard policy when working with clients, as practiced by the Anonymous group. Frolov should have taken this into account.
But he had no time to do this, as he was selling information to FSB representatives and terrorist organizations in eastern Ukraine. The terminals of Avakov, Zhvania, the entire top GPU and Ministry of Internal Affairs officials, Yeremeyev's group, and journalists Portnikov, Ivanov, and Yakhno were tapped. The phones of Levus, Yalovenko, and many others were tapped, with transcripts delivered daily to Poroshenko.
That is, Frolov traded wholesale and retail to anyone who would pay.
Hackers leaked a sealed document from the US Attorney's Office containing materials from the FBI's Cybercrime Unit. This document contains:
1. General plot of the case
2. Contact lists (personal mobile phones of representatives of the FSB and other forces) with whom Frolov is in contact and who purchase transcripts and audio files or order blackmail - "fakes" - on politicians who are undesirable to the Putin-Poroshenko regime and represent the interests of democratic forces.
3. As an example of cooperation with the FSB - leaks of information regarding
AZOV, AZOV-SICH battalions and other military documentation.
4. Industrial espionage against the UNIS corporation (Zvarych), leaking the system and source codes of the AISUMTU software (customer Ukrchastotnaglyad).
Ukraine is on the brink of a scandal greater than the famous Melnichenko tapes and Gongadze's disappearance. After all, Kuchma didn't leak information to Moscow or monitor the economic activities of his opponents. Furthermore, Kuchma's administration wasn't engaged in the production of fake news or provocations to discredit its rivals. But Poroshenko has a good reason for keeping Frolov up his sleeve. He plans to exploit him. But the hunter has fallen into the trap himself.
The veracity of this information should certainly be verified by both the SBU and the Prosecutor General's Office. But in any case, the scandal has already erupted, and now the question arises: how to resolve it?
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