| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Cybercrime |
| Founded | Moscow, Russia |
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Group-IB is a cybersecurity company. It was founded in 2003 by Ilya Sachkov and Dmitry Volkov in Moscow, Russia.
In 2023, it spun off its Russian operations with its operations outside Russia led by Dmitry Volkov, a Russian national, and based in Singapore, while the Russian entity continues operations in Moscow under the F.A.C.C.T. name.
Group-IB was founded in 2003 by Ilya Sachkov and Dmitry Volkov in Russia, to provide cybercrime investigations and digital forensics services. [1] In 2017, the company signed a data sharing agreement with INTERPOL, to coordinate the exchange of threat intelligence. [2] The company moved to Singapore in 2019. [3] In July 2020, it received funding from the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore through venture capital firm TNB Ventures. [4]
In September 2021, Ilya Sachkov, its co-founder and CEO, was detained by Russian authorities for treason. [5] He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. [6] The Russian and international business were later split with the business sold in April 2023 to Russian management to be branded F.A.C.C.T. [7] [8] F.A.C.C.T. would market Group-IB products and services while being a separate entity allowing Group-IB to not directly have a presence in Russia. [9] The move was reportedly because its Russian ties were hurting its business. [10] It was reported that despite the business split, founder Ilya Sachkov remained the primary shareholder of both companies. [11]
In December 2023, the company's Moscow spinoff F.A.C.C.T. discovered that a hacking group was targeting Russian companies with a war-related phishing attack. [12] According to Substack, the Group-IB based in Singapore continues to be headed by Dmitry Volkov, a Russian national. [13]
In July 2025, it was reported that Group-IB was acting as legal agent for Tencent, a company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, in attempting to kill FreeWechat.com, an anti-censorship WeChat archive developed by Chinese censorship monitoring website GreatFire to enforce the Communist Party's Great Firewall. [13] [14] [15]