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February 26, 2019

Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

This post was originally published on this siteA Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information about Russian cybercriminals with U.S. law enforcement officials. The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted for their part in an investigation into Pavel Vrublevsky, a convicted cybercriminal who ran one of the world’s biggest spam networks and was a major focus of my 2014 book, Spam Nation. Sergei Mikhailov, formerly deputy chief of Russia’s top anti-cybercrime unit, was […]