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Russia Arrests Top Kaspersky Lab Security Researcher On Charges of Treason (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Russian authorities arrested Ruslan Stoyanov, one of Kaspersky Lab's top-ranked security researchers, under article 275 of the Russian criminal code, which refers to treason. According to Russian newspaper Kommersant, who broke the story today, Stoyanov was arrested in December, together with the head of the Russian Secret Service (FSB) information security department Sergei Mikhailov. In a statement released today by Kaspersky Lab, the company says that Stoyanov was arrested based on activities he partook in before joining the company. Details regarding the investigation are murky, but according to the Russian newspaper who quotes anonymous sources, Stoyanov was involved in facilitating the transfer of funds from foreign companies to Mikhailov's accounts. According to Stoyanov's LinkedIn account, before serving as Head of the Computer Incidents Investigation Team at Kaspersky, he worked as Deputy Director for a company called Indrik, but also as a Major in the Ministry of Interior's Cyber Crime Unit.
We'll Putin a good word fr them here as well.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
This is an example of the growing problem of government security agencies contracting out services to corporations. Those corporations will always use those associations between individuals built by the contact associated with those contracts to specifically and on purpose corrupt those government officials and agents they work with to serve the short term interests of the corporations and especially the executive teams of those corporations, regardless of the short, medium or long term interests of the country (in fact in crazed risk taking they are more than content to risk the future of the country as whole). So were they spying for foreign government agencies or a multinational corporations with it's corrupt hooks in many countries. The over sized multi-national corporation represent a far greater threat than most other countries, far greater, with objectives like war for war profits sake being by far the greatest threat versus say the somewhat lessor threat of corrupt economic policy designed to impoverish the majority and empower the minority, one power the specifically seek is the power of life or death over others, the thrill kill upon a mass scale.
Government security agencies contract out at the peril of their country and only promote it as a result of in place corruption and corrupt associations, much like the NATO school, where corrupt corporations seek out corrupt individuals in government to promote into higher and higher places of authority to promote the profits of the corporations and as many need to die as need to die in order to maximise the power of those corporate executives (keep in mind we are talking the murder of millions in fake wars constructed in corporate boardrooms).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Edward Snowden early on became employeed by Kaspersky Lab.
This is the reason, 5-years early, that Edward Snowden is seeking asylum in Iceland, and quick!
The details are in the summary: He and a high-ranking FSB official were laundering money from foreign accounts.
Yawn.
No, that's what he's accused of. Putin has a habit of accusing business people who get in his way or oppose his views of various unrelated high crimes.
hey but that guy on the internet knows the TRUTH!
Yeah, and the CIA also has a habit of trying to buy off Russian security personnel with money transfers from front companies.
urine from an undisclosed source
Most of the time, urine comes from people pee-pees.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
given how fast the company distanced itself from him and stating it was for actions prior to his employment it sounds like this is just another corrupt individual caught up taking bribes from US government. Putin does plenty of shady shit, but that doesn't suddenly make everyone else innocent.
From the article looks like he may have helped 'laundered' money for someone, maybe a rival of Putin ? Wonder how much easier/harder laundering in Russia will become in today's climate ?
Enjoy your time insulting our Leader.
That time is ending sooner than you think.
Was he taking bribes from TLA to make Kaspersky less secure? Is it a coincidence that Hillary used Kaspersky on her email server?
"In theaters, February 14th."
I told you, read the pee memos, it quotes known FSB spies, those names were covered with code letters in the memos, Source E confirmed they were behind the hacking etc.. Once Trump got to power he has access to the full list of USA spies in Russia, so Source E can be arrested for espionage.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
I told you what would happen. Trump's obviously told the Russians who those spies really are. And Russia will get access to every spy's name, every IT backdoor NSA put in, every secret key, every zero-day exploit now. Courtesy of their squeeler man Trump.
Trump is a stupid bitch. Only his supporters are less intelligent than he is.
It's a stock Putin trick:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/how-putin-uses-money-laundering-charges-to-control-his-opponents/277903/
" Last Thursday, Sergei Magnitsky was convicted of tax evasion. The only problem was he was not there to hear the verdict read. Magnitsky was killed in Moscow's Butyrka prison in 2009, likely as a result of beatings and a lack of medical treatment. His crime was uncovering a $230 million tax fraud involving members of the government while working as a lawyer for William Browder (an American investor who was also convicted in absentia)."
"But Magnitsky's conviction is not simply an example of the capricious nature of the legal system in Russia; it is a view into how the use of money laundering, financial laws, and Russia's financial intelligence unit are used to control political dissent. "
EXPECT A LOT MORE.
Trump has access to ALL the names of CIA spies in Russia names and their details. So you can expect him to obtain those names, and hand them over to Putin in exchange for personal leverage. These two will just be the two sources quoted in the pee memos. Those source the CIA and MI6 considered reliable known agents will only be the first.
Likewise his GOP and Democrat opponents can expect an increase in domestic surveillance of their activities, from Trump aparchniks (go look it up, nothing is new, Russia took over democracies before exactly the same way). There was a very good reason we put in the checks and balances on surveillance, and this is it. You can't have a President with access to a spying machine outside of the USA law (the FSB), and domestic spying machine with minimal checks and balances, in the Oval Office (NSA), and have the ability to block defence of US cyberspace from Russian attack.
He used Russian hackers, and Russian botnet programmers for the last election, he'll use them for the next election. And he'll have the power to block the government from defending the election or investigating the hacks.
I would like to discuss your views with you. You may expect a visit soon.
-signed,
an Inquisitor sent on behalf of the God Emperor Trump
He's SOURCE B, read the memo's, he fits the description.
page 1: "Speaking to a trusted compatriot in June 2016, sources A and B, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure and former top level Russian Intelligence Officer".
Source B will be the Kaspersky man arrested.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
Page 2. "The Moscow Ritz Carlton episode involving TRUMP reported above was confirmed by Source E..."
Source E, is FSB man, known to CIA and MI6 and considered reliable, so he will be Sergei Mikhailov who was arrested.
Source F was a hotel staffer who confirmed it, so you'll see people having accidents at the Ritz Carlton soon enough.
Source D is an associate of Trump's, if he's Russian, he'll be found dead, if he's American, well, Putin has killed opponents with polonium poisoning in the UK, so I don't think the USA if off bounds now with Trump in power.
Source A, the Russian Foreign Office official whose a CIA spy, hasn't yet been arrested, but I'm guessing he'll be found dead too.
Trump men will have gone into the CIA and asked for the names of these people, then provided those names by his backchannel to Putin to be fixed. That is what we're seeing now. This is the currency they've been using in exchange for Putin's help with the elections. Trump spies for them, mostly on Oligarchs (think hidden cameras in hotel rooms), and they helped him get into the office. Now he has access to all that intelligence, he can barter that too in exchange for further help securing power, and undermining opponents.
Putin has jailed political rivals and political opposition by accusing them of crimes but these two guys are not business people or political activists. And usually the only ones who would be charged with a money laundering offense in Russia are those who failed in their duties. Top level government figures and the wealthy oligarchs are having one hell of a time moving their money around due to the financial related sanctions leveled against them.
Or maybe the real reason these guys got charged with treason is they are being held responsible for a breach in the Russian computer and network systems. The public sanctions levied against Russia by Obama for hacking the DNC are well know but there is almost a 100% chance the US also enacted some not so public sanctions by hacking into something the Russians consider important and giving Russia a small sample of what could happen in the future if they continue their non-sense. The Russians and Chinese are always to eager to reveal their cyber warfare to project a strong image to the world but the US seems to be keeping their capabilities unknown until something important enough happens and the gloves come off. You always hear about Russia, China, or even NK getting called out for hacking but you never hear those countries accusing the US of the same type of actions. Does this mean the US is just to stupid to breach their systems? Or maybe it means the US just never makes the attempt there by leaving any chance of evidence laying around? Or maybe the US is embedded so deep within their systems that they do not even know where to start looking for evidence?
So THATS why he's Trumps hero, he likes "Alternative Truth" too.
How is this "informative"? From your perspective, Putin has this habit (an assertion without evidence provided). If true, that doesn't indicate that the accusations are false at all. You make no argument and provide no new information.
If you read the intelligence memo that accuses Trump of working with the FSB to win the election.
Ruslan Stoyanov fits SOURCE B, read the memo's:.
page 1: "Speaking to a trusted compatriot in June 2016, sources A and B, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure and former top level Russian Intelligence Officer".
Source B will be the Kaspersky man arrested, ex top level intelligence officer arrested shortly after Trump's inauguration, when Trump gets access to the names of spies that America has in Russia.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
Page 2. "The Moscow Ritz Carlton episode involving TRUMP reported above was confirmed by Source E..."
Source E, is FSB man, known to CIA and MI6 and considered reliable, so he will be Sergei Mikhailov who was arrested.
Source F was a hotel staffer who confirmed it, Source D is an associate of Trump's, Source A, the Russian Foreign Office official.
If you remember Trump's comments to Richard Brandson: "Donald Trump told Richard Branson during their first encounter that he would spend the remainder of his life trying to destroy five people he had asked to no avail to aid him after his latest bankruptcy.". Trump is all about revenge and attack anyone who isn't 100% on Trump message.
Do you think Trump wouldn't immediately take steps to attack the spies who leaked details of his piss sex sessions to the CIA? Of course he would. He'll have obtained the names of these sources from the CIA (they are known reliable spies for the CIA), and he'll have passed those to Putin by his co-operation back-channel.
So it's no surprise to see an FSB agent and a former intelligence man arrested immediately after Trump takes office and gains access to intelligence names.
I guess he'll be sent to the labor camps and spend the rest of his days being tortured and overworked with no food.
trump is a distraction. there is not a corner of the internet where he isn't brought up no matter what's being discussed.
Those intelligence memos were from a known reliable analyst quoting known reliable Russia spy sources. The memos cited two way cooperation between Trump camp (via Manafort and Carter Page) and Putin's FSB for mutual gain.
I don't know where you get the 'insane conspiracy theory' stuff from, this is Occam Razor, as soon as Trump takes power, and put his operatives into the CIA, people fitting the descriptions of sources for the Trump memo are arrested in Russia.
Motive, opportunity, means, a pattern of revenge, a loyal defender of Putin, a vigorous attacker of, well, CIA, Democrats, Republicans, Washington insiders. Can you imagine any case where Trump has the names of his accusers and a means to get back at them, and doesn't take it? So of course he's a traitor.
That still doesn't make everyone arrested automatically innocent. And given the people involved their seems no political or business reasons to send the police after them. seems more likely these are just individuals caught laundering money from foreign government bribes.
As the steganographic comment "wait til they get a load of this" in the recent virus signatures suggests....
I thought it was that guy on Twitter.
Doesn't mean it was treason either. Embezzlement, money laundering, general shiftiness, sure. But treason is a pretty big stretch.
Hillary doesn't know a damn thing about computers. She hates them. She likes the pearl Blackberry. So she had some two bit IT guy maintain the Mac in the basement and he put on the Kaspersky. It is a pretty decent anti-virus after all.
If there's one thing Americans hold great pride in, it's our right to insult our leaders and your leaders. And like all rights, it must be exercised often else we lose it. It's our patriotic duty!
You talking about Putin or Trump? Seems a bunch of Russians have taken over posting and modding /. to me.
well, if you work for the government security forces and get paid to do things against the said government... most countries would call that treason. The key here is the security forces, that are usually required a total loyalty
Higuita
tell that to Snowden ...
Higuita
He wasn't arrested because he facilitated money laundring but because he didn't share with the thiefs in law.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
Snowden wasn't exercising a right. There's no "whistleblower" amendment, no non-disclosure contract get-out-of-jail free clause, or any such thing.
He released highly classified material without consent and is in violation of a contract he signed with the government, not to mention U.S. Criminal Code. Yes, you can argue that it was the right thing to do and get international conversations started. Doesn't stop the fact that his public release of the material was unlawful and (potentially) treasonous.
But, but, but ....
What about the emails !?!?!?
Ah, I don't think he is hiding in Russia because he insulted any American leader. I also bet he is not going to say anything insulting about Vlad while he is a house guest there.
Trump is our leader about as much is Putin is Russia's leader.
Countries, states, how cute. Families are who run the world. But keep stating Russia, US, and China as if it means something.
John, your former country needs YOU now more than ever! Only YOU can defeat Trump with his own tenuous grip on reality.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
No, no, twitter is all bots these days. Doesn't anyone read slashdot?
Are all the Russian astroturfers taking the a day off? From pushing Putin's agenda on slashdot?
Huh, non sequitur. You can insult your leaders separately and independently from disclosing state secrets. together or separately. There is nothing Snowden did that I would call an insult, and the US government is not mad at him because of any insults.
That is true!! the only way to survive to trump is to play the John McAfee card. Only he can nullify any shit content coming out from Trump mouth/tweets.
Please John, replace someone in the senate/congress and reset Trump
Higuita
yes, i know... but all leaders were insulted indirectly... it showed that all of then are just lairs! :)
Higuita
This guy was an employee of Kaspersky. This is not Kaspersky. Doubt this dude even had equity. This is not someone at a level where Putin would give enough a rats rear to set this guy up especially as he was not political and the crimes involved are financial and not political.
I wouldn't call these allegations things that are against the Russian government. They are illegal yes, but there's a difference between treason against a country and acts that are called illegal by that country. Laundering money in a domestic account is not treason, and laundering money in a foreign account is not treason.
The details are murky, sure. But there is no hint anywhere about what is actually treasonous.
Hillary'ous didn't but the camarilla needing POTUS Hillary'ous did and that's all it takes in the real world.
sounds like this is just another corrupt individual caught up taking bribes from US government.
To be clear "taking bribes from US government" in this case would almost certainly mean "providing intelligence on Russia's hacking and espionage activities.
what the fuck sort of drugs are you on? this is the EXACT same process the US and most western countries use. You Arrest someone and charge them with a crime, the courts then determine their innocence or guilt and NO YOU FUCKING DO NOT have a right of innocent until proven guilty, that is purely a concept for the courts.
Oh Crap!
In the olden days maybe. But not anymore. Now we know all about your country really works.
where do you think the money comes from? and for what they got the money! ;)
Higuita
That time is ending sooner than you think.
My freedom of speech ends where my right to bear arms begins, so no worries.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Our "rights" are documented.
For example, my original post and my posting that the motherfucking pussy grabber is not my president are protected in writing.
I support Snowden, but nothing he did is protected in writing.
He made his situation and he needs to deal with it by staying right where he is.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Huh? to us you look like you worship the paper they wipe their asses with, it's actually one of the things that makes talking to Americans so tiring, way to much rah rah rah
...says the guy on the Internet who doesn't search it.
Why search? I'm following that guy on the internet who already knows! He's done everything and handed my opinion to me!