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posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 01 2017, @10:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the double-down-on-your-triple-agents dept.

The continuing developments over Russian hackers, including the unfolding details of the yahoo breech includes the U.S. indicting agents of the Russian computer crime unit.

Mike Eckel, of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, notes that 3 of the FBI's cyber most wanted include Sushchin, Dokuchaev, and Belan, all who are noted to have worked with the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, ostensibly to catch cybercriminals, while committing crimes themselves, and using their connections to evade detection.

Dokuchayev, with whom the Americans met with during their 2009 meetings in Moscow, was once well-known in cybercircles under the nickname Forb. He worked with other FSB officers, including one named Igor Sushchin, to recruit hackers to cooperate with the Russian agency on cyberactivities. Among the recruits was Aleksei Belan, who has been wanted by the FBI since 2012 for alleged hacking and computer fraud.

[...] In March, Dokuchayev's name surfaced again when the U.S. Justice Department announced his indictment, and that of FSB officer Sushchin, in connection with the massive data breach at the Internet company Yahoo. Mikhailov's name does not appear in the indictments, although cyberexperts believe someone identified only as "FSB Officer 3" is, in fact, Mikhailov. Sushchin, according to the indictment, worked as an undercover officer at the investment bank Renaissance Capital.

Part of the problem may be with how Russia uses and recruits cybercriminals from time to time:

"Moscow still depends, to a considerable extent, on recruiting cybercriminals, or simply calling on them from time to time, in return for their continued freedom," Mark Galeotti, a Prague-based expert on Russian intelligence agencies, wrote in a report published on April 18."

"This all -- this all is a mess," Vrublevsky told RFE/RL. "And it's a mess to be dealt with in both countries. The sooner the better."

https://www.rferl.org/a/cyber-crime-us-russia-cooperation-mess/28459178.html


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  • (Score: 2) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Tuesday May 02 2017, @04:42PM (4 children)

    by its_gonna_be_yuge! (6454) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @04:42PM (#502942)

    "real" Ukrainians want nothing to do with Russia, then who voted for Yanukovich?

    Exactly - how Yanukovich manipulated the ballots is well documented. The only tall tales here are the ones you are telling to try to pretend that Ukrainians want to stay in Russia. Doh.

    My family is Ukrainian. They want nothing to do with Russia. They are European, not slaves to the Russian dictatorship. And you Putin-lovers will never get Ukraine back as a slave state again.

    The only time I've seen posts like yours is from Russians being paid in the propaganda factory out of Petersburg. Just another one of those I guess. So it's not worth spending any more time on you.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:16PM (3 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:16PM (#503211) Journal

    My family is Ukrainian.

    Well, that explains the hostility and emotionalism..

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
    • (Score: 2) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:52PM (2 children)

      by its_gonna_be_yuge! (6454) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:52PM (#503242)

      Well, that explains the hostility and emotionalism..

      You're right. No family likes to see their kin butchered. And that is exactly what the Russians are doing. In Ukraine. In Chechnya. In Syria.

      Putin should be charged with war crimes.

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:00PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:00PM (#503253) Journal

        A lot of people should be, in fact, anybody who started a war. Question remains, How'ya gonna do it?

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        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:06PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:06PM (#503265) Journal

        Y'know, for the sake of argument I'll give you Ukraine and Chechnya (those wars being as old as they are), but Syria no. Somebody else, predating Putin by far (and not even from that side of the Urals), started that one.

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        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..