When the 2000s (dashing zeros years) were on the Internet, it was considered fashionable for a new russian programmer to become a real hacker. Some schoolchildren read the Xakep magazine, and immediately went to hooliganism. There are many Russian black hats, cyber gangsters, internet bank robbers, carders, scammers, fishers, dropmasters, burgals, ddosers, 0day exploit coders etc.
Now a lot has changed, now it is no longer fashionable to be a real hacker in Russia. You can only be good security guard, white hat, security researcher etc.