Senior manager at Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm arrested

emmjay · Jan 25, 2017

A manager in charge of investigating hacking attacks at Russia's biggest cybersecurity firm has been arrested

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-t...-cybersecurity-firm-arrested-in-moscow-2017-1

Minimalist · Jan 27, 2017

Kremlin-Friendly Media Speculates Kaspersky Cyber Analyst Was Anonymous Hacker

Speculations are running high in regards to Kaspersky cybersecurity analyst Sergei Mikhailov that was arrested in December in Russia and accused of treason, as recent reports indicate he was an Anonymous member.

The Moscow Times cites pro-Kremlin television network Tsargrad TV saying that Mikhailov could very well be a member of Anonymous International, an organization notorious over the past few years for leaking private emails of public figures with ties to Putin and those surrounding him.
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Minimalist · Feb 11, 2017

East-West Co-operation Stalls Following Kaspersky Lab Arrest
Co-operation between cybersecurity experts and even law enforcement in Russia and the West had been improving, with both sides keenly aware that anything involving classified information and possible state sponsored activity is off limits, the newswire claimed.

But the arrest of Stoyanov has now apparently undermined that informal relationship, with Russian experts understandably reluctant to share any info with their Western counterparts and some US firms curtailing their own outreach on the understanding the Russians would no longer welcome it, the report claimed.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/eastwest-cooperation-stalls/

Minimalist · Feb 27, 2017

Russian cyber experts were charged with treason due to the allegations made seven years ago

According to the sources, the authorities arrested the suspects may have passed secrets to US firm Verisign and other unidentified American companies. These companies then have shared the secrets with US intelligence agencies.

The authorities have given no public explanation for the arrests, but the source connected to the investigation told the Reuters agency that the arrests were a result of accusations made in 2010 by Pavel Vrublevsky. Vrublevsky is a Russian businessman and founder of the online payments company ChronoPay.
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http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/56709/intelligence/russian-cyber-experts.html

guest · Feb 26, 2019

Russian ex-cyber security chief gets 22-year sentence for treason
February 26, 2019
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...y-chief-gets-22-year-sentence-treason-n976191

A court in Moscow on Tuesday sentenced a senior Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at a cybersecurity firm to lengthy prison sentences on treason charges.

Moscow's District Military Court, which has been hearing the top-secret case for nearly two years behind closed doors, sentenced Col. Sergei Mikhailov, former deputy head of the FSB's Information Security Center, to 22 years in prison and a fine.
It also sentenced Ruslan Stoyanov, an executive at the Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm, to 14 years in prison and a fine.

Several Russian media outlets including Kommersant reported that the case centers on accusations that Mikhailov contacted Stoyanov to pass confidential information from a probe into activities of Russian businessmen Pavel Vrublevsky to a cybercrime analyst with alleged ties to the FBI.
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