“A lot of people think that [cybercrime] is always just one guy in a hoodie in a basement,” says Georgina Fuller, who is in charge of countering cybercrime at the agency. “They don’t realise that these kinds of actors are actually supported by a really thriving ecosystem of illicit businesses that are set up to enable them to commit their crime.”For Ermakov, that was an obscure company called ZServers in Barnaul, a city of 630,000 that is closer to Mongolia than Moscow.
