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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.

    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