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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. This is an internal affair by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is an entirely internal Russian affair. If you think that pressure outside of Russia had any effect on this arrest, you have never been to Russia, and you don't understand how things work there. Pavel Vrublevsky's competitors were better connected in the Russian government, and they were able to pay more than Pavel Vrublevsky was able to pay.

    If you think that arrests and such things that occur within Russia equate to arrests for similar reasons in the west, you are uninformed.

    1. Re:This is an internal affair by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 2

      Exactly, Russia, China, and the United States really are the only nations left that can have completely "internal affairs".

      I think Russia internalizes a bit more.

  2. 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.

    1. Re:So ... by utkonos · · Score: 4, Informative

      When you say Russian authorities, you seem to mean that there is one organization. There are many factions of siloviki in Russia. Putin is currently the top dog, but there are others. It is most likely that the ChronoPay disrupted the wrong company. That company complained to its protectors, and ChronoPay was stopped. ChronoPay's scareware operations do not step on the toes of any siloviki, so they are not a problem.

    2. Re:So ... by utkonos · · Score: 5, Informative

      A good introduction to the siloviki is on the Exile: http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13442&IBLOCK_ID=35

  3. Wow. by Compaqt · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was an expensive way to get a slashvertisement on the front page.

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  4. Translation by girlintraining · · Score: 1

    "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."

    "There's too many of them, and not enough of us. So what we'll do is make a lot of busts in a short amount of time and publicize the hell out of it to scare them and make the public think it's all under control."

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  5. Re:In soviet russia... by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    ...service denies you.

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  6. Really? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1

    That was an expensive way to get a slashvertisement on the front page.

    Slashvert for a corrupt Russian CC processor / spammer? Really? I'm not sure this is their audience.

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  7. Why you should care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Why you should care about Chronopay.

    Basically, if you've ever had to remove fake anti-virus software from a PC or a Mac, there's a good chance that Chronopay were involved somewhere.

    1. Re:Why you should care by ub3r+n3u7r4l1st · · Score: 1

      That is why I don't remove those. I backup all the docs and anything important and restore the damn thing from a disk image.

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  8. Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov (left) with Pa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    http://f8.ifotki.info/org/56e50da471e51571d910b656c1f88b70c7309391348273.jpg
    Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov (left) with Pavel Vrublevsky (middle)

    Suspected that Pavel hired somebody to ddos another russian processing company Assist, in a quarrel over who will process electronic payments for Aeroflot (national carrier). So this all have nothing to do with malware.

  9. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  10. Wait a second, 27 comments... by cyberfin · · Score: 1

    ... and no "In soviet russia" jokes? Oh wait, this is /. not youtube. Sorrymybad.

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