Russian treason arrests stemmed from intel official helping U.S. catch criminal hackers
Three current and former Russian intelligence agents and a Russian cybersecurity firm employee arrested for treason in their native country had been feeding the U.S. information on criminal hackers, a Russian news station reported Wednesday.
Sergey Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchaev, who at the time were employed by Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB, were arrested along with former FSB agent George Fomchenkov and Kaspersky Lab employee Ruslan Stoyanov in connection with data on Russian criminal hackers that they passed along to the CIA, according to Rain TV.
The arrests, which were made public in late January, caused speculation that the four had been informants for the investigation into Russian hacking in the 2016 U.S. elections.
According to the Rain report, they had actually been tipping off the CIA about Russian criminal hackers, including accused credit card thief Roman Seleznev and alleged LinkedIn hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin.
Seleznev, the son of a Russian legislator, was arrested on vacation in the Maldives in 2014. According to the Rain report, aiding in his capture forced the hand of Russian authorities to arrest Mikhailov, Dokuchaev, Fomchenkov and Stoyanov.
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Russia arrests intel agents for treason after they helped US catch hackers https://t.co/3ro6WJtVDw pic.twitter.com/Dj8uKo4bHc
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