Five Years, 88,000 Backdoors, and a Pair of Handcuffs: Inside the Global Manhunt That Ended in an Arrest

Five Years, 88,000 Backdoors, and a Pair of Handcuffs: Inside the Global Manhunt That Ended in an Arrest

That’s the story we dug into on Episode 3 of _declassified, where John Hammond, Principal Security Researcher, sat down with Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan and Brett Leatherman, Assistant Director of the FBI Cyber Division. The conversation covered a five-year manhunt, a global public-private partnership, and what it actually takes to put a state-sponsored hacker in handcuffs. A “limited” attack that turned into 88,000 backdoors Back in 2021, secur…