Redazione RHC : 26 August 2025 15:16
The FBI is offering a generous reward for anyone who can help find Amin Stigal, 23, and Timur Stigal, 47, a father and son team. They are accused of hacking into the computer systems of government agencies in Ukraine and dozens of Western countries. Furthermore, their backgrounds include alleged “subversive actions” in collaboration with Russian GRU officers, trafficking in stolen credit card data, extortion, and more.
The Stigall family apparently now lives in Saratov.
Timur Stigall admitted in a conversation with journalists that he had participated in some operations against foreign intelligence services. However, he denies his son Amin’s guilt.
It should be noted that Amin Stigall was also surprised when, on June 26, 2024, an unknown person sent him a link to a Telegram message stating that the FBI had declared him wanted.
At the time, the boy was studying at a technical college in Khasavyurt, specializing in “information resource operator”, but was expelled in his first year for absenteeism. According to American intelligence agencies, Amin, in collaboration with five GRU employees of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, allegedly participated in computer system hacking starting in December 2020, specifically in attacks on the Ukrainian portal Diya (analogous to the Russian “Gosuslugi”). At the time, Amin was not even 20 years old.
As a result, in August 2024, a US court issued an arrest warrant for Amin, and the FBI set a reward.
Because of this, the man lives in a state of constant stress. He believes he’s been accused of something he didn’t do.
A report by the US National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) also implicated the GRU in attempting to interfere in the election that brought Donald Trump to power. According to the NCSC, the GRU is associated with several hacker groups: Fancy Bear; Sofacy; Pawnstorm; Sednit; CyberCaliphate; CyberBerkut; Voodoo Bear; BlackEnergy Actors; Strontium; Tsar Team and Sandworm.
Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand have also accused the GRU of conducting a worldwide campaign of “malicious” cyberattacks.
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