Top Russian Cybercrimes Agent Arrested on Charges of Treason

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A senior official in the Russian cyberintelligence department that American officials say oversaw last year?s election hacking has been arrested in Moscow on charges of treason, a Russian newspaper reported Wednesday. The arrest raised the possibility that Mr. Mikhailov and Mr. Stoyanov had interfered in this cooperation. Mr. Mikhailov served in the F.S.B.?s Center for Information Security, the agency?s cyberintelligence branch, which has been implicated in the American election hacking. In another indication of high-level turmoil over cyberintelligence issues within the security agency, Kommersant reported on Jan. 13 that the director of the Center for Information Security, Andrei Gerasimov, would be fired. The newspaper article, in Kommersant, which cited unidentified sources in Moscow?s technology industry and the F.S.B., said the treason charges related to work on criminal hacking investigations.