Radio Free Europe by Mike Eckel 3/16/2020
More Glimpses Of How Russian Intelligence Utilized Hackers Revealed In U.S. Trial
One month after he was indicted in the United States for hacking-related cybercrimes, a Russian man named Nikita Kislitsin sat in a room at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow where FBI agents notified him of the charges.
At the time of the meeting, in April 2014, Kislitsin was employed by Group-IB, a major Russian cybersecurity company. Prior to that, Kislitsin had been well known in Russia’s cyberunderground. He was acquainted with Yevgeny Nikulin, whom he described as the “Putin†of the hacking world.
According to filings in U.S. federal court, Kislitsin was notified of his rights by the FBI agents. Kislitsin then indicated that he was “open for collaboration†and wanted to “mitigate problems.â€
And he described how another Russian hacker had worked with the Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, to obtain “compromising information†on unnamed individuals.
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