THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.

[Детективное агентство Тула]

In the case of treason, FSB officers were arrested. They are accused of transmitting confidential information to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It is noteworthy that these are not ordinary employees - these are senior managers. In collaboration with foreign intelligence, they accused Sergei Mikhailov, the head of the department of the Center for Information Security of the FSB of the Russian Federation, and his deputy, a native of the Urals, Dmitry Dokuchaev. In total, four people were arrested in the case, and up to eight people appear as accomplices.

The case in the case of the Humpty Dumpty hacker group is also related to this case, and, possibly, the head of the department for investigating cybercrimes at the Kaspersky Lab may be involved in this in some way.

History is booming throughout the country - after all, this is treason in the main security services. Doctor of Historical Sciences, politician Vyacheslav Tetekin is sure that when corruption rises in the highest echelons of power in the country, and the economy puts more pressure on the shoulders of the population, decomposition processes will reach even the most persistent pillars of power, even the special services. He told about this and many other things in an interview to Nakanune.RU.

Question: FSB officers were arrested on charges of treason, since they could cooperate with the CIA - in your opinion, what should you pay attention to in this situation?

The arrest of FSB officers is just the tip of the iceberg

Vyacheslav Tetekin: The problem lies in the general degradation of the moral state of our citizens. If before there was a kind of “overturn” to the other side - any contact with a foreigner from far abroad, from capitalist countries was already considered a potential prerequisite for possible recruitment, now society has turned in the opposite direction - it’s almost valor to play into the hands of the West. Society is oriented in this direction.

Plus, the cult of enrichment by all means creates the prerequisites for the recruitment of our representatives of the special services. Because intelligence, counterintelligence, representatives of other law enforcement agencies are watching what is happening around - and they are much better informed than ordinary citizens about the level of corruption that prevails in the highest echelons of power, including due to national interests. Therefore, some employees, apparently, also have a desire to get rich in this way. There is a general erosion of society.

Question: How did she get to the leadership of the FSB units?

Vyacheslav Tetekin: The fact that the case with these hackers with whom our special services work is now revealed is only the tip of the iceberg. After some time, when everything falls into place, a terrifying picture of the mass recruitment of representatives of our law enforcement agencies, and not only of law enforcement agencies, but also of economic bodies by these very foreign intelligence services, will become clear.

Why is the situation developing in this case against this Humpty Dumpty? Because in America, a scandal broke out around the alleged interference of Russia in the electoral affairs. At first we rejected these claims, but then we began to look for where the legs were growing, and here they are - it turns out that someone could have worked with the Americans. And I emphasize again - most likely, this is only the tip of the iceberg of mass betrayal.

The FSB is the structure that lasted the longest. In law enforcement, the authority of Dzerzhinsky is still high. Still, there are moral guidelines, but degradation and general decay ultimately affected law enforcement agencies.

Question: And when did this general erosion begin?

Vyacheslav Tetekin: It started from the beginning of the 90s, when it was believed that, having destroyed the Soviet Union, we would instantly enter a “civilized society”. And at the same time, there was a mass conscious breaking up of our national foundations, it was not a spontaneous process. And in order to successfully sell the homeland, you first need to change the mentality of a person - this is the source of the betrayal with which we are dealing today. Foreign students were imposed on foreign authors even in the courses of literature, there was an alienation from national traditions, foundations, and culture.

It is not the concrete traitors who are to blame - although they must be condemned in all severity of the law if they are truly guilty - but also the general morals that prevail in society. Now, finally, now the last couple of years have taken up this matter.

They grabbed these gentlemen who sold some secrets to the West, but, on the other hand, let's look at the economic bloc of the Government - a number of independent economists blame the economic bloc for betraying national interests. The policy pursued by these people is so grossly contrary to the interests of the development of the Russian Federation that so many are wondering - is it just a mistake or is it something, is someone behind it?

Question: But before they took those who wanted to work against their country - now there are more of them?

Vyacheslav Tetekin: In the USSR, everyone who embarked on the path of betrayal understood that he was facing a minimum of 15 years in prison, and a maximum of execution. General Polyakov was shot, Penkovsky was shot, and everyone who was just starting to move in that direction clearly knew what awaited him. Therefore, in the 50-80s. there were only a few cases of state treason on the part of the special services.

And recently, spies have begun to be treated condescendingly. Not a single American was tied up, not a single accomplice of the Western special services was arrested, there was no high-profile process. The atmosphere of universal connivance. I think that the root of the problem is connivance towards those who lend themselves to the recruitment of foreign intelligence services. For them, it turns out, "a little bit of bargaining" is not only not reprehensible, but also not very dangerous. This is, first of all, a reflection of the policy of senior management, which did not lead a hard line to curb betrayal. So they got what they got.

Question: On the other hand, we see that they were still arrested - is work still underway? Watching not only the enemy, but also the rear?

Vyacheslav Tetekin: I am convinced that the vast majority of special services are absolutely decent, loyal, patriotic people. There is no doubt about that. And these criminal manifestations and relations with foreign special services are monitored and accumulated. But the question is whether these matters are given a move or not. If they don’t give it, then why? Either because they are afraid of "making dirty linen in public," or because someone needs it.

Question: How then can one characterize the current situation of our special services?

Vyacheslav Tetekin: In recent years, an open confrontation with the West has begun, but it has not a patriotic, but a business character. Our oligarchs simply do not want to share their profits, and above all, oil revenues, with the Western oligarchy. The phenomenon of patriotism, which suddenly flared up, should be sought not in rethinking our recent past, but in the fact that the interests of the Western, world oligarchy and the Russian oligarchy have diverged. Here, the fight against foreign intelligence has even begun a little.

However, this “economic” patriotism is short-lived. As soon as Donald Trump said that we have nothing to share, let's be friends - our officials immediately started talking about the priority of restoring relations with the West. “Let's look again for investments, investments, loans, etc.” - then we can assume that this “patriotic enthusiasm” will decline.

And of course, an ordinary young man, looking towards the West, sees that there is no work here, and you won’t get an apartment, and there is no growth prospect. How can patriotism arise on this basis? No way. Patriotism arises only with a healthy economic basis and with social justice. Without this, it is impossible.

If the country's economy is falling apart, there is a degradation in almost all sectors of society, then how can we assume that the special services will remain untouched by the process of decay? It's impossible. Therefore, professionalism is falling, corruption is growing. And despite the fact that the vast majority of special services employees are true patriots who fight for the interests of the country, these decomposition processes penetrate, unfortunately, quite deeply.

Source: http: //news-russia.ru-an.info/news/arrest-workers- FSB- this is only the tip of the iceberg

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

Despite early rebuttals, two former FSB officers and one former Kaspersky Lab manager were indeed charged with high treason in favor of the United States, one of the arrestees said. So the high-profile “case of Russian hackers” has become openly espionage, from which several important conclusions can be drawn.
Even before the lawyer spoke that the FSB officers of Russia arrested in the case of high treason and hackers transmitted confidential information to the CIA, Interfax reported the same with reference to its sources familiar with the situation. “The head of the department of the Center for Information Security (CIB) of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Sergei Mikhailov, and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchaev are accused of violating the oath and began to cooperate with the CIA. In total, four people were arrested in the case, and up to eight people appear as accomplices. Only four were charged, the rest can get off with witness status, ”said one of the agency’s interlocutors.
Another source emphasized that “the topics of hacker attacks and betrayal seem to overlap in the case, but do not overlap.” “Each of the defendants went about their business: someone developed and applied cyber attack schemes, and someone collaborated with foreign intelligence agencies. And these directions went in parallel and, as a rule, did not intersect, ”the source said.
According to him, the whole group was connected by the fact that they were familiar with each other and related to IT-technologies and the field of information security. “Moreover, the main thing in this chain was not a senior in position and rank,” the source emphasized.

The CIA categorically refuses to comment on these allegations in any way. And this is the most interesting in this story.

So far, all attempts to imagine what specifically “cooperation with the CIA” could have expressed were nothing more than speculation. In addition to the extreme delicacy of the topic itself, there are also strict legal restrictions such as the law on the protection of state secrets and directly the secrets of the investigation. Even Mikhailov and Dokuchaev’s reclassification of charges to Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (also known as “death to spies”), although the rest pass through Article 272 (unlawful access to computer information), can be defined as a “secret of investigation”. It is possible that, as a result, the case of Mikhailov and Dokuchaev in its “espionage” component can be separated into separate proceedings, and “pranks”, such as hacking e-mails of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and employees of the presidential administration, will be released to the defendants on probation.

The principal question here is the “degree” and the way of cooperation with foreign intelligence, if we forget about the content of the information that, according to the prosecution, these two passed to the CIA. It’s one thing if Colonel Mikhailov clearly knew and understood that he was transmitting to a foreign intelligence officer some data of interest to him — that was “death to spies.” If you knew, but did not have clear evidence, it’s still the 275th. And the man who made such an enchanting career at such a young age is clearly not deprived of his intellect or talents, so he could not have guessed.

Another thing is if the information flowed from him to certain third parties who, on their own initiative, passed it on to the CIA or to someone else. Or, these third parties simply did their job, and Colonel Mikhailov was a round idiot or a person who got confused in the mass of dirt. In this context, the sources point out (we emphasize that all this is informal and unprovable information and all arguments on this subject are a mind game) to two US citizens - Kimberly Zenz and Dmitry Alperovich.

The first is an “anti-Russian hacker” analyst at iDefence, an American subsidiary of Verisign, the largest company in the world that supports domain names, including the two most important ones: com and net. The company never particularly hid its cooperation with the American intelligence agencies.

The second is the technical director and co-founder of CrowdStrike, a famous company in the world of cyber espionage and hacking. This child prodigy, a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, was born in Moscow, but his parents emigrated when he was only 15 years old. In particular, he led Operation Aurora against Chinese hackers who attacked Google in 2010. Foreign Policy magazine included him in the list of 100 world thinkers. On this list, of course, strange people come across, but Alperovich got there for the job.

Both of these outstanding people were familiar or, in the professional language, “were in touch” with Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of the Kaspersky Lab department, the first person arrested in these criminal cases, who is believed to have given fundamental testimony against Mikhailov.

One of Stoyanov’s former partners, when he had not yet worked for Kaspersky, but owned his own Indrik company, was a certain citizen of the Russian Federation Dmitry Levashov, and also a common-law husband, Kimberly Zenz. Presumably, in some everyday way, Stoyanov was also in touch with Alperovich. Then he introduced Zenz first to Dokuchaev, then it seemed to be like Mikhailov himself, and then all together with Alperovich. Thus, from the two FSB officers, the most important sensitive information began to go to the two largest cybersecurity companies, directly related to the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI.

This, perhaps, explains the words of one of the sources that "the main one was not the senior in rank." Stoyanov and Dokuchaev are asking for the role of initiators of creating a spy network. These men had previously been prone to adventures, especially Dokuchaev, who combined work in the FSB with the publication of hacking columns in one of the specialized computer magazines. There is evidence that he started as a juvenile hacker whom the FSB brought to work by threatening to put money from bank accounts for stealing money. On this basis, he met Stoyanov, who (again, according to unverified data) had long worked with the TsIB FSB on an informal basis.

At the same time, Kimberly Zenz became the first in the United States to “sit down” on the topic of “Russian hackers,” and in 2007, through the Washington Post, she spotlighted a certain Petersburg hosting company, accusing her of promoting cybercrime and stealing $ 150 million through phishing. And Dmitry Alperovich in September 2016 was the first to accuse “Russian hackers associated with special services” of hacking the servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party. Alperovich’s authority as a world expert in this field “sanctified” the entire further anti-Russian campaign. In the USA, few people doubt these accusations precisely because of the involvement of authoritative experts and recognized leaders in the security protection market.

Colonel Mikhailov in this whole story appears as a driven character, whom two enterprising computer adventurers dragged into a muddy business for the purpose of earning, and later he could only get off this carousel through the Lefortovo doors. This somewhat does not correspond to the input data on his personality, which are few, and they are rather strange.

All people who have in the past or have in this connection with any special services have problems with official biographies. There may be several versions of these, often they hang out on the Internet and the media in parallel, giving rise to many questions. Sometimes several years of activity sometimes disappear without a trace, sometimes another year of birth is indicated (for example, from the long-forgotten documents of a “legend”), sometimes educational institutions overlap. But so that a person does not have any childhood at all - this does not happen. Sergei Yurievich Mikhailov was born in Belarus, and received Russian citizenship in the mid-90s. That in the Russian Federation, that in Belarus then there was such a mess that any documents were "lost" and "were" depending on the amount. Belarus is still a black hole in this sense, but a person should have at least classmates, childhood friends, neighbors, cousins and uncles in Mogilev. There is none of them. Before obtaining Russian citizenship, Mikhailov, as it were, did not exist.

All this gave rise to a phantasmagoric version of the “rogue illegal agent,” the prodigy boy sent to the FSB computer systems (which were just starting to form then) with long-term goals. And then the day came when he surrendered to the CIA and the FBI the “Russian hackers” who brought to power Putin's protege Donald Trump. Curtain and Medal of Congress.

Good script for HBO. Moreover, this is technically possible if we recall all the circumstances of life in the 90s. Another thing is that the introduction of a young man "in the future" in the mid-90s, the CIA would simply not have occurred. There, in those days, it was believed that Russian intelligence and counterintelligence would end forever and they would not be allowed to spend unlimited resources on working with a juvenile illegal.

One of the “birth injuries” of this story is that the TsIB FSB, like some other specialized units, likes to work with civilian companies and individual characters from them on an informal basis. If Kaspersky Lab had an official contract from the FSB to protect information or something else in this area, like CrowdStrike and others from the FBI, no one would have thrown a stone at them. And so, citizen Stoyanov stirred up something there with the senior security officer Dokuchaev with an equally murky past. This company would sooner or later get home before a criminal case, the question is only in the article and the gravity of the deed.

But the motives of Mikhailov’s behavior are not clarified. Old stories are striking in which he proved himself to be a typical raider. There are also unproven but suspicious attempts to obtain confidential information from private companies using their official position. In the end, a man at some point almost crushed a significant part of the Runet, which could not but affect his psychological state. Or, the amount of compromising material that Dokuchaev and Stoyanov could operate on has outgrown a critical point. In any case, he could not help but understand that he was doing something wrong.

Details of the information transmitted to the CIA will also influence the argumentation of the prosecution and the final sentence. It seems that the most significant were the IP addresses and data on certain servers, which the American intelligence agencies now accuse of participating in the notorious "Russian hacker attack" on the Democratic Party and (this is new data) on the election systems in Arizona and Illinois.

King service, owned by Russian businessman Vladimir Fomenko, came under the distribution. But in his case, the word “businessman” can cause incorrect associations. He began to buy servers and domain names when he was 18 years old. Now he is 26, he lives in Altai, in the city of Biysk, and rides a snowboard, and you can maintain companies that control servers in the Netherlands without removing the snowboard. The FBI claims that phishing emails were sent from its servers; Fomenko himself claims that he knew nothing about it. As evidence of the accusation, the American side presents a tattoo on Fomenko’s neck (outwardly a typical juvenile hacker, as the film industry represents them), suspiciously similar to the symbol of the hacker organization Anonymous. And he himself admits that a significant portion of the revenue from his servers comes from pornography distributors. It’s not possible now to understand whether the cybersecurity services really just tracked the servers or if they were transmitted by the “Mikhailov-Dokuchaev spy group”.

In any case, the amount of evidence against Mikhailov and Dokuchaev is apparently sufficient to re-qualify their acts as a “spy” article. But the specific circumstances and degree of guilt will be established by the court of the Moscow garrison. Meetings which are likely to be held behind closed doors.

Source: [DLMURL] https://www.vz.ru/society/2017/2/2/856072.html [/ DLMURL]

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

However! It seems that this is the biggest scandal involving FSB officers over the past 20 years !!!

 

[Чередов Алексей]

Interestingly, bring to trial?

 

[Чередов Алексей]

Interestingly, bring to trial?

 

[samson81]

They will bring it ..... they will convict, and then amnesty for "service to the Motherland" .... And the guys will go to California and not the cutting area !!!

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble.
The bad news is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that’s the trick!
And in general he cannot say what he will do tonight.

M. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita"

 

[Детектив-Молдова]

That's for sure! Not human, no business!

 

[cybertron2]

The saddest thing is that people in the special service are mired in crimes in our country, and they only turned them when they crossed the road to the more mother wolf. That's all.
The FSB creates problems in order to solve them later, as a result of which new problems are created. A vicious circle and a black hole for budget funds. And there are already a million drug addicts in the country. But it’s better to fight terrorists and spies than drug dealers.