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The United States Department of Justice has not exactly been shy about charging operatives of foreign governments for their illegal activities online (e.g. Olym

The United States Department of Justice has not exactly been shy about charging operatives of foreign governments for their illegal activities online (e.g. OlympicDestroyer, Solarigate). As far as I've been able to determine, neither their prosecutors nor the FBI agents doing the investigating have had the problems you so colorfully describe. If it were the case that this type of moonlighting was happening, I think the FBI would have been bringing cases to court. That would constitute evidence.

T-A 5y ago
They have. Here is a well known example from 2017 [1]: During the conspiracy, the FSB officers facilitated Belan’s other criminal activities, by providing him with sensitive FSB law enforcement and intelligence information that would have helped him avoid detection by U.S. and other law enforcement agencies outside Russia, including information regarding FSB investigations of computer hacking and FSB techniques for identifying criminal hackers. Additionally, while working with his FSB conspirators to compromise Yahoo’s network and its users, Belan used his access to steal financial information such as gift card and credit card numbers from webmail accounts; to gain access to more than 30 million accounts whose contacts were then stolen to facilitate a spam campaign; and to earn commissions from fraudulently redirecting a subset of Yahoo’s search engine traffic. Here's what the Treasury had to say about it in April [2]: To bolster its malicious cyber operations, the FSB cultivates and co-opts criminal hackers, including the previously designated Evil Corp, enabling them to engage in disruptive ransomware attacks and phishing campaigns. More about Evil Corp etc in [3]. [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-fsb-officers-and-their-criminal-conspirators-hacking-yahoo-and-millions https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-fsb-office... [2] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0127 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0127 [3] https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-general-news-government-and-politics-c9dab7eb3841be45dff2d93ed3102999 https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-general-news-...

T-A 5y ago

They have. Here is a well known example from 2017 [1]: During the conspiracy, the FSB officers facilitated Belan’s other criminal activities, by providing him with sensitive FSB law enforcement and intelligence information that would have helped him avoid detection by U.S. and other law enforcement agencies outside Russia, including information regarding FSB investigations of computer hacking and FSB techniques for identifying criminal hackers. Additionally, while working with his FSB conspirators to compromise Yahoo’s network and its users, Belan used his access to steal financial information such as gift card and credit card numbers from webmail accounts; to gain access to more than 30 million accounts whose contacts were then stolen to facilitate a spam campaign; and to earn commissions from fraudulently redirecting a subset of Yahoo’s search engine traffic. Here's what the Treasury had to say about it in April [2]: To bolster its malicious cyber operations, the FSB cultivates and co-opts criminal hackers, including the previously designated Evil Corp, enabling them to engage in disruptive ransomware attacks and phishing campaigns. More about Evil Corp etc in [3]. [1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-fsb-officers-and-their-criminal-conspirators-hacking-yahoo-and-millions https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-charges-russian-fsb-office... [2] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0127 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0127 [3] https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-general-news-government-and-politics-c9dab7eb3841be45dff2d93ed3102999 https://apnews.com/article/business-technology-general-news-...