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Head of ChronoPay Arrested In Moscow

Posted by timothy on from the thought-this-was-a-free-country dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Pavel Vrublevsky, the head of a prominent Russian payment-processing company, ChronoPay, was arrested in Russia on suspicion of hiring someone to launch a denial-of-service attack against one of his company's main competitors. The arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile actions against people and groups around the world suspected of being involved in the global cybercrime ecosystem."

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  1. So ... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Russian authorities don't do anything about ChronoPay's Scareware operations but they come after them for disrupting another Russian company with a DDoS attack? I guess that's what you'd call a home field advantage.