Russian treason arrests stemmed from intel official helping US catch criminal hackers

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

Three current and former Russian intelligence agents and a Russian cybersecurity firm employee arrested on charges of treason had been feeding the U.S. information on criminal hackers, a Russian news station reported Wednesday.

Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchaev, who at the time were employed by Russia's intelligence service, the FSB, were arrested along with former FSB agent George Fomchenkov and Kaspersky Lab employee Ruslan Stoyanov in connection with data they passed along to the CIA, according to Rain TV.

The arrests, which were made public in late January, caused speculation that the four had been informants for the investigation into Russian hacking in the 2016 U.S. elections.

According to the Rain report, they had actually been tipping off the CIA about Russian criminal hackers, including accused credit card thief Roman Seleznev and alleged LinkedIn hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/347776-russian-treason-arrests-stemmed-from-intel-official-helping-us-catch

[L. Coyote]

1. This is the kind of country we don't want Trump to create, where it is treason to catch criminals,

such as him and his entire campaign.

[The_jackalope]

2. They were probably shopped to the FSB by Flynn

When he found out about them in one of his early security briefings.

[bettyellen]

3. THIS!! He was evil enough to try to get that Turkish cleric extradited to certain death for money

There seems to be no limit what he might do for money.

[dalton99a]

7. Yep.

[elehhhhna]

4. How do I know this isn't bullshit

[The_jackalope]

5. Because it was reported by NYT back in January.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/world/europe/russia-hacking-us-election.html

[Thomas Hurt]

6. If the Russians were so interested in improving relations with the US

as Trump and Putin's mouthpieces proclaim. They would have gladly shared this information with us. These hackers were criminals right? (wink,wink)

[ffr]

8. Working with the CIA and now outed and arrested.

tRump perhaps divulging our sources as payback to Putin?