The Saibus Foundation closed the agreement to buy FACCT assets (former group-IB), were transferred to the company that will work under the F6 brand. It focuses on the fight against cyber crime, as well as the development of technologies and services to prevent and investigate cybercriminals in Russia and abroad, said Press Service F6 to RB.RU.
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Saiberus announced an agreement with FACCT shareholders in November 2024. The agreement was closed on January 31. The shareholders of the new company became Saibus (47%) and private investors (53%), said in F6.
Together, but separated. The CEO of F6 was the former head of the Valery Baulin of Facct, the company’s team also moved under its leadership. Within the framework of the transaction, “it is planned to expand the cooperation of the F6 with other projects in the background contours to combine efforts in the construction of a new cybersecurity architecture,” said the press service. “At the same time, Saiberus will not participate in operational management F6,” they emphasized there.
Now, the F6 is working on the update of the product line and the location of decisions “taking into account the largest market requests and relevant cyberosis,” said the company. In 2025, the new version of the malware detonation plans, which admits the Russian operating system based on Linux.
Market ratings. The amount of the transaction was not revealed. FG Finams Leonid Delitsyn analyst estimated at 4 billion rubles, and Vdomosti interlocutor with cybersecurity of FER – 5 billion rubles.
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Saiberus was created in 2022 by the company’s co -founder in the field of positive cybersecurity technologies Yuri Maximov and other investors. The fund, together with market players, creates new products and invests money in IB projects for the development of cybersecurity in Russia.
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The-IB Group was founded in 2003 by Ilya Sachkov. In 2021, the Russian application agencies arrested Sachkov for information transmission charges that constitute Gostin. In 2023, the Moscow city court sentenced Sachkov to 14 years in prison. In the same year, the-IB Group sold Russian businesses to local management, which changed the company’s name on FACCT
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