Russian Authorities Arrest Cybersecurity Giant Group-IB's CEO on Treason Charges (techcrunch.com) 30
Russian authorities have arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the co-founder and chief executive of Group-IB -- one of the biggest cybersecurity companies in the country -- on charges of treason. From a report: Details about Sachkov's detention remain unclear but it was reported by Russian media as authorities searched the company's offices, reports Reuters. State news agency Tass said Sachkov, who was arrested on Tuesday, was charged with allegedly transferring classified information to an unnamed foreign government, claims that Sachkov denied, according to the report. Group-IB confirmed the arrest of its CEO, but a spokesperson for Group-IB did not comment beyond a statement on the company's website, which said the company is examining the Moscow court's decision and that it is "confident" in Sachkov's innocence. Sachkov, 35, founded Group-IB in 2003. The company, now headquartered in Singapore, helps companies and governments investigate cyberattacks and online fraud, and has customers ranging from Interpol to Russian banks and defense companies.
Easy... (Score:2)
They called out a Russian "cybercriminal" operation that was really a cyber war op.
I wonder which "hack" it was.
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Not necessarily. (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe they were simply in the way of something. Or didn't leap high enough when Putin softly murmured "jump".
Just ask BP how it feels to be repeatedly raided by Russian special police forces. [reuters.com]
Re: [What was] Easy... [? Getting arrested?] (Score:2)
FP hurry much? Resulting in yet another vacuous Subject?
Trying to figure out your meaning I focused on your quoted keyword of "hack", but such searches didn't find anything enlightening in the summary or in the original article.
Care to explain your intention? My wild guess is perhaps something like "It's easy to step on the wrong toe in Putin's Russia" or maybe a First-Rule-of-Fight-Club joke? Or how about "I'm shocked, shocked to find that cybercrime is going on in here!" (with "here" being Putin's kleptoc
Putin got caught? (Score:5, Interesting)
The company,
So we can translate this as Group-IB providing information about hackers, to a target of Russian government hacking then?
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yep, that thing. Silly to do if you are still in country.
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Thats the American Way (Score:2)
Who gets prosecuted comes down to prosecuterial discretion.
And elected District Attorneys have no biases as they dont have to raise campaign funds from rich white donors
OR DO THEY?
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are you telling me the judge gets to pick and choose who goes to prison?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Not even safe in the UK.
How you know the US conspiracies are fake (Score:2)
If the crazy conspiracies about things like a stolen election were true, than either CNN or Fox news would be accused of treason.
But the fact that we do NOT do that proves the conspiracies are fake.
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I'm afraid that's not how First Amendment works. Sorry.
And the less is said about your understanding of geopolitics the better. People have died of embarrassment before.
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I did not mention anything about the First Amendment, your use of it demonstrates you are not a trustworthy source of information. Yes, the 1st amendment is related to what I discussed, but I neither mentioned it or relied upon it.
Also, nothing I mentioned was about geopolitics. It was about internal politics, not international politics (nor geography). Using fancy words only work if you understand them.
But do not worry, I am sure that you will not die of embarrassment.
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I will try to break this down to simple paragraphs for you to understand.
1) I have read the constitution and know the facts, but they do enter into this argument. This is about what criminal governments DO, not what is legal and constitutional. I did not discuss what is legal, I talked about actual actions.
2) This is an on-topic post about the criminal actions of a government, demonstrating what actually happens in a conspiracy.
3) Russia made accusations of Treason. As such, what our constitution (or t
Economic treason, Comrade! (Score:2)
You are accused of economic treason, Comrade!
You have transferred state secrets to foreign powers. The state secrets are the exploits used by our state enterprises to steal money and information from the West, and this has grievously damaged our glorious Russian kleptoconomy.
You will be held in prison until all your wealth can be seized, and then you will be killed in a prison accident, or maybe illness.
So die all traitors to the Kleptocracy.
I bet they demanded the company ignore government (Score:5, Interesting)
To me it clearly seems like they demanded that some states sponsored malware should be undiscovered by their security software the people rely on.
Company likely didn't listen and here are the made-up charges to back up the threats.
But Nice Try by the state to reframe the issue
They should learn from Microsoft (Score:3)
Re: They should learn from Microsoft (Score:2)
Keep dreaming, as if the government communicated anything that clearly.
Maybe he had said something hateful (Score:1)
Maybe they found out that he had at some point said something negative about a person or group
A thought for the future, gentle reader: (Score:1)