Caught in the Crossfire: Infighting and Treason in Russia’s Cyber World

Malicious Life

Technology

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On Dec. 5, 2016, two senior Russian Intelligence officers and two civilians were arrested and accused of treason. A few weeks later, when Western journalists were finally able to speak with the men’s lawyers, they learned that the case was based on events that were, oddly enough, already widely known. This made the arrests even more peculiar.

As more details emerged over time, the picture became clearer, offering Westerners a rare glimpse into the typically secretive world of Russian intelligence.

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0:00.0	Colonel Sergei Mikhailov was one of Russia's top cybersecurity experts.
0:15.0	As the deputy head of the CIB, Russia's Center for Information Security,
0:20.0	a unit of the FSB, the country's main security agency, he was involved in almost every cyber
0:26.4	crime investigation in Russia over the past 10 years and was highly respected by his peers in the West.
0:33.5	You can imagine how shocked he must have been on December 5th, 2016
0:39.0	when during a staff meeting in Moscow,
0:42.0	several police officers burst into the room, placed a black bag over
0:46.0	his head, and let him away in handcuffs.
0:51.1	Later that same day, Roslan Stoyanov was preparing to board a flight to China.
0:57.0	He was also a leading cyber security expert head of the Cyber Incident Investigations Department at Caspersky Lab and responsible for the company's
1:06.0	relations with local law enforcement. Stoyanov sent a text to his wife to let her know he had just checked in for his flight, but he was arrested before he could board the plane.
1:18.0	Two more men were arrested that day.
1:21.0	Major Dimitri Dukachayev, Mikhailov's second in command, arrested that
1:23.6	day Major Dimitri Dukachayev, Michaelov's second in command, and Gregory Fumchenkoov,
1:27.2	about whom almost nothing is known, except that Russian news outlets
1:31.6	refer to him as a shady businessman.
1:36.2	Intelligence agencies are notoriously secretive and Russia's are no exception.
1:42.0	It took nearly two months for where to reach Western news outlets,
1:46.1	and even then no one knew the reason behind the mysterious spade of the rests, as the
1:51.6	Washington Post put it.
1:53.0	The only information Russian authorities were willing to reveal was that the four men had been charged with treason.
2:01.0	No other details were provided, as the case was classified as a state secret.
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