According to interviews with former employees, web forensics, Avalanche presentations and conversations with Masalovich himself, he seems an archetypal modern-day surveillance mercenary catering to repressive regimes and Russian energy companies run by sanctioned billionaires. But he's hard to take seriously - a Shakespearean jester with KGB connections. Therein lies the paradox of Masalovich: He appears legit.
“I awoke that morning and found myself famous,” he said the day after the Treasury’s sanctions. With a book to sell and a growing audience of 95,000 subscribers for his YouTube channel Cyberded (which translates to Cyber Grandpa in Russian), he told Forbes he was happy for the publicity.
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