A handout photo shows the apartment of a Ukrainian man suspected of running a bot farm for Russian customers during a search by the Security Service of Ukraine on July 26.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) detained a Ukrainian national who is suspected of setting up a bot farm to sell fake online accounts, the so-called bots, to Russian customers.
The suspect, a local tech specialist, allegedly used nearly 12,000 SIM cards of Ukrainian and Russian mobile operators to create fake user profiles in social networks, messengers and electronic wallets, SBU said on July 26.
