Legal matters

Police drop the ball on copyright complaint; culprit remains unidentified

May 30, 2012 May 30, 2012

In yet another investigative deadlock only too common for cybercrime cases in Russia, Moscow police have suspended what could have become a bellwether inquiry into a copyright infringement offence, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported earlier this week, citing an official police source. A 27-year-old Muscovite has been suspected of having “replicated and disseminated” 18 copyrighted music …

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Federal Antimonopoly Service initiates proceedings relating to SMS spam

April 30, 2012 April 30, 2012

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation for the City of Moscow has initiated proceedings against the furniture company Shatura for distributing advertisements via SMS without users’ consent (SMS spam). During the check, the Antimonopoly Service established that Shatura had violated the article of the Federal Law on Advertising which forbids the distribution of …

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Cease-fire in political hacking on Election Day

March 5, 2012 March 5, 2012

In contrast to the massive hacker attacks that took place during the parliamentary election on December 4th and over the following weeks, no notable incidents were reported yesterday when Russian voters reelected Vladimir Putin as their president – a sign perhaps of the increased legal risks and political cost for the parties involved. Using computer …

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Vkontakte.ru too “passive” with copyright infringement, says arbitration court

February 22, 2012 February 22, 2012

Last week, the St. Petersburg Arbitration Court offered long-awaited explanations about the decision it issued in January of last year regarding an alleged copyright infringement involving Vkontakte.ru, the leading social network in Russia. The Gala Records record label had accused Vkontakte of having illegally offered online copyrighted recordings by the Russian band ‘Infinity’. Vkontakte claimed …

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Microsoft accuses Russian engineer of creating Kelihos botnet

January 26, 2012 January 26, 2012

Earlier this week, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, made the findings of its Kelihos botnet investigation public, accusing Andrey Sabelnikov, a Russian engineer from St Petersburg, of having created the bot code and conducted the operation. In the original complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in September, Microsoft alleged …

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Vrublevsky freed after 6 months in jail

December 30, 2011 December 30, 2011

Pavel Vrublevsky was released last week after spending 6 months in Lefortovo prison in Moscow, following his arrest in June of 2011 for organizing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the website of Assist, a competitor of his company, Chronopay. A leading Russian online payment processing company, Chronopay processes almost half of all Visa and …

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Moscow couple charged with video piracy with over $1 billion in damages

November 3, 2011 November 3, 2011

Moscow residents Andrey and Natalya Lopukhov have been charged with Internet video piracy, with Russian and international copyright owners seeking damages estimated at over 38 billion rubles, or $1.26 billion. The Russian Office of the Prosecutor General ordered the couple to be arraigned in court on criminal charges, the Russian press reported last week.

ChronoPay owner Vrublevsky pleads guilty in cyber attack case, court extends detention

November 2, 2011 November 2, 2011

Moscow city court confirmed almost two months of extended detention for prominent Russian Internet businessman Pavel Vrublevsky, who is expected to be held until December 23. The court has rejected an appeal filed by Vrublevsky’s attorneys to release the entrepreneur on bail for 30 million rubles, a sum of almost $1 million. Vrublevsky, 32, was …

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Russian authorities block huge new personal data leak

October 3, 2011 February 15, 2017

On Thursday, October 1, a group of anonymous Russian citizens launched Rusleaks, a web site providing open access to a significant volume of personal and corporate data from a variety sources, including highly confidential ones such as the databases of Russian tax service and law enforcement agencies. The site was no more accessible today after …

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Rostelecom accused of misappropriating budget funds

September 5, 2011 September 5, 2011

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has been accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of involvement in the misappropriation of 300 million rubles, approximately $1 million, from the government funded Electronic Russia program.

Search engine data leaks shocks Russian Internet community

July 29, 2011 July 29, 2011

Russia’s Internet community was shocked by a series of major private information leaks during only one week and amid the adoption of a new law aimed to protect personal data. The vulnerabilities of Russian websites came to light for the first time last Monday, when some 8,000 text messages sent by clients of the Russian …

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Web Sheriff vs. Web Sheriff: “Digital Cold War” declared between British and Russian anti-piracy companies

July 14, 2011 July 14, 2011

Web Sheriff Ltd., a London-based company protecting online rights against infringements, announced last week it “fired the first shots in an international legal battle against an alleged Russian imposter” – namely Iks Media Digital, a Moscow-based company offering similar services to the Russian market under the same trademark.

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