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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.
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
Ah. His pogramming must've had a leak.
Good pogrammers know how to manage their system resources, after all...
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.
Good pogrammers know how to manage their system resources, after all...
And if they make a mistake, it will be a pogramattic error.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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 ?
Don't confuse stupid with things like crazy, self-centered, narcissistic, selfish, etc. At least as far as Trump himself is concerned. Don't make the mistake of underestimating him; that's what got him where he is in the first place.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
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.
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.
I thought it was that guy on Twitter.
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!
Russians have mod points? Why is this being buried? It's fucking insightful!
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.
Trump is our leader about as much is Putin is Russia's leader.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
...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!