Vrublevsky Sues Kaspersky
Summary: ChronoPay founder Pavel Vrublevsky, on trial in Moscow for allegedly hiring the curator of the Festi spam botnet to attack rival payment processor Assist, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Kaspersky Lab over blog posts covering his case. Vrublevsky argues Kaspersky is not a disinterested party because Assist was using Kaspersky's DDoS protection services when the attack took its services offline for a week.
Why it matters: The suit targets coverage of a trial in which Aeroflot's claim of almost $5 million in cyberattack losses was dismissed, and it follows Vrublevsky's earlier, abandoned effort to bring a similar defamation case against the reporter who documented his dispute with ChronoPay co-founder Igor Gusev.
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