Russian cybersecurity experts arrested in ‘US-linked’ treason case

‘Two senior Russian cyber security officials along with a top anti-hacking expert have been arrested in a US-linked treason case.
A lawyer representing one of the suspects said on Wednesday that Sergei Mikhailov, the deputy head of the FSB’s Centre for Information Security, and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchayev along with Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of the investigation unit at Moscow-based cybersecurity giant Kaspersky, had been detained by authorities in Moscow.
Ivan Pavlov said the three were suspected of committing treason. He added that the case was linked to the United States but said the CIA spy agency was not specified in the documents related to the case.
This is believed to be one of the highest-profile treason cases to hit the Russian intelligence community in years.’
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