>The indicted FSB officers are Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, his superior. Particularly galling to U.S. officials is that the men worked for the cyber inv

>The indicted FSB officers are Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin, his superior. Particularly galling to U.S. officials is that the men worked for the cyber investigative arm of the FSB — a rough equivalent of the FBI’s Cyber Division. That the agency that is supposed to investigate computer intrusions Russia is itself engaged in hacking is “pretty sad,” one official said. >Dokuchaev, whose hacker alias was “Forb,” was arrested in December in Moscow, according to the news agency Interfax, on charges of state treason for passing information to the CIA. He had reportedly agreed to work for the FSB to avoid prosecution for bank card fraud. The interesting bit here is that Dokuchaev is a part of Humpty Dumpty (Shaltai-Boltai) saga: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/a-shakeup-in-russias-top-cybercrime-unit/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/a-shakeup-in-russias-top... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-30/how-russian-hackers-became-a-kremlin-headache https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-30/how-russi... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38930627 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38930627 https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/tinker-tailor-hacker-spy-57013 https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/tinker-tailor-hacker-spy...