The treason case against a handful of former Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents was launched after the suspects passed several names and other information about Russian hackers to the CIA, an unnamed source reportedly close to the FSB told the TV station Dozhd. Ivan Pavlov, the lawyer for one of the treason suspects, has denied these allegations.
As director of the FSB’s Center for Information Security, Sergey Mikhailov — now a defendant in the treason case — investigated Russian cyber crimes and collected information about hackers. According to Dozhd’s source, Mikhailov and his accomplices sold some of this information to the U.S. government, allegedly leading to the apprehension of several Russian hackers abroad.
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