Russian Hacking: Four Men Face Treason For Passing On Information From Russia to CIA
Sergei Mikhailov, head of cybersecurity at the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, his deputy Dmitry Dokuchaev, Ruslan Stoyanov, head of the cyber crime investigations department at Kaspersky Lab and a Ukraine-based journalist Vladimir Anikeev have all been arrested to face charges of treason. The four men are accused of passing on confidential information from within the FSB to the CIA, the central intelligence agency of the US. Stoyanov, an employee of multi-bln dollar cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, is alleged to have passed on sensitive information about the previous Russian....
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