Lawyer confirms FSB cybersecurity experts arrested in US-linked treason case
Moscow — Russia has arrested two senior secret service cybersecurity officials and a top anti-hacking expert on suspicion of committing treason linked to the US, a lawyer involved with the case confirmed Wednesday. Sergei Mikhailov, deputy head of the FSB’s Centre for Information Security, and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchayev are in detention along with Ruslan Stoyanov, head of the investigation unit at Moscow-based cybersecurity giant Kaspersky, lawyer Ivan Pavlov said. The arrests were first reported last month. "The case is connected with the US," Pavlov said, saying there was "no mention" of the CIA in documents related to the case. News of the arrests followed a flurry of reports in the Russian media over a case which could prove to be one of the highest-profile treason cases to hit the Russian intelligence community in years. Russian authorities have not confirmed the arrests, but the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had been informed about the media reports. US cybersecurity...
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