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Police Arrest Alleged U.S. Spy Working in Heart of Russian Cybersecurity
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS FROM MOSCOW TIMES A GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED PRESS, IMO Russia is killing off anyone connected to Americas election & democracy destabilizing. .Police Arrest Alleged U.S. Spy Working in Heart of Russian Cybersecurity
Jan 26, 2017
A top cybersecurity specialist in Russias Federal Security Service (FSB) was arrested on Wednesday reportedly on suspicion of leaking information to the U.S. intelligence community a bombshell accusation that, if true, would mean Washington had a spy in the heart of Russias national defense infrastructure.
According to the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the FSB believes Sergei Mikhailov tipped off U.S. officials to information about Vladimir Fomenko and his server rental company King Servers, which the American cybersecurity company ThreatConnect identified last September as an information nexus that was used by hackers suspected of working for Russian state security in cyberattacks.
According to the RBC news agency, a total of four individuals have been arrested in connection with the treason case against Mikhailov, including charges against Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Labs, and Dmitry Dokuchaev, who worked in the same FSB unit as Mikhailov.
The name of the fourth treason suspect is still unknown.
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/americas-alleged-spy-in-the-heart-of-russian-cybersecurity-56945
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Police Arrest Alleged U.S. Spy Working in Heart of Russian Cybersecurity (Original Post)
Sunlei
Jan 2017
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shraby
(21,946 posts)1. Is someone outing our spies we have in Russia? Sure appears to me they are.
It would be someone here with security clearance who would know the names of the ones being rounded up in Russia.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)2. How convenient.
There's some really dark things going on. Frightening.
I don't know if Middle America realizes or cares how
far off the rails we could fall.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)3. I think whoever hacked for Republicans are thrown under the russian busses now, how horrible for
their families, their kids.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)4. I wonder how many russian spy's we have here...do you suppose they
could arrest reporters here on false charges as Russian spy's.. the days of McCarthyism - could they be upon us...
Why isn't congress screaming about this absolutely stunning EO - immigration ban - is he wanting war? - instigating, agitating..without facts..without empirical evidence? -
Huffpo's front page is the saddest I have ever seen....frightening..to think this is America..now!
"First they came" and I did nothing, then they came for....