Former Kaspersky Lab Expert Sentenced in Russia for Treason

Ruslan Stoyanov gets 14 years in Russian prison.

The former head of Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs computer incidents investigation unit was sentenced today in Moscows District Military Court for treason.
Ruslan Stoyanov, who had been with Kaspersky Lab since 2012, was
arrested in December 2016
along with Sergei Mikhailov, deputy head of the information security department of Russias Federal Security Service, or FSB, and another officer of the FSB for alleged treasonous activities.
Stoyanov received a 14-year prison sentence and a fine, and Mikhailov, a 22-year sentence and a fine, according to an NBC News report today.
Russian media previously had reported that Stoyanov was contacted by Mikhailov to provide FBI cybercrime analysts with information on an investigation into the activities of a Russian businessman,
Pavel Vrublevsky
. Details of the case have been slim.
While at Kaspersky Lab, Stoyanov led the firms cybercrime investigation that ultimately led to the 2016 arrests of 50 members of the so-called Lurk cybercrime gang that stole more than $45 million from Russian financial institutions — Russias largest-ever crackdown on financial cybercrime.
Kaspersky Lab said Stoyanov is not related to the company: The case against this employee does not involve Kaspersky Lab. Ruslan Stoyanovs trial was held in private and the proceedings were classified; we do not possess any information about the substance of his charges, Kaspersky Lab said in a statement.
Stoyanov previously had served as head of network security for Russian ISP OJSC RTComm.RU, and was with Ministry of Interiors Moscow-based Cybercrime Unit in the early 2000s.
In 2015, Stoyanov authored
a report for Kaspersky Lab
on the inner workings of Russian financial cybercrime that noted that the risk of prosecution is low for cybercriminals in Russia: The lack of established mechanisms for international cooperation also plays into the hands of criminals: for example, Kaspersky Lab experts know that the members of some criminal groups permanently reside and work in Russias neighbors, while the citizens of the neighboring states involved in criminal activity often live and operate in the territory of the Russian Federation, he wrote.
Kaspersky Lab is doing everything possible to terminate the activity of cybercriminal groups and encourages other companies and law enforcement agencies in all countries to cooperate, he wrote at the time.
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