A Shakeup in Russia’s Top Cybercrime Unit
Summary: Russian authorities arrested Sergey Mikhaylov, deputy chief of the country's top anti-cybercrime unit, and Ruslan Stoyanov, a senior employee at Kaspersky Lab, on treason charges that keep the case classified. Krebs reports the men are suspected of leaking information to Western investigators and of funneling embarrassing data on Russia's political elite to the blog Humpty Dumpty, with the arrests possibly tied to a long-running grudge held by spam kingpin Pavel Vrublevsky.
Why it matters: The treason case against two of Russia's own cybercrime investigators, per analyst Kimberly Zenz, is likely to have a chilling effect on threat-intelligence sharing and will make researchers ask whether sharing information on an attack or malware could get them charged with treason.
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