Cover design for My Viruses! by Gajka Mitić and Bojko Dvaćić

The authors of My Viruses! explore the facts and memes surrounding Russian hackers, questioning how often they are truly responsible for the attacks attributed to them. The pages reveal portraits of spies and investigators, as well as accounts of crimes and punishments in the invisible world of cyberspace. Security specialists operating under the online aliases Gajka Mitić and Bojko Dvaćić based the book on their podcast, making it more professional, adding more “meat and potatoes” and presenting the key facts in the style of a workplace novel. The authors aim to break stereotypes and show how digital threats evolve, how analysts deal with them, and what outcomes emerge.

The cover features the letter Ё emerging from total darkness. A lowercase letter hidden inside an uppercase one is a visual metaphor for the intertwining of two worlds: the criminal and the ordinary.