[10] In the course of the trial, the operatives and investigative materials on Pavel Vrublevsky's case were posted to the Internet by unknown persons, including those that were not submitted to the court.
[13] News of the arrests of head of the computer incident investigation department of Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov and Georgy Fomchenkov came later.
[16][17][18] On July 11, 2010, due to the DDoS attack on the servers of the Assist payment system, air ticket reservation on Aeroflot's website was not available for a week.
[24] The criminal case was sent for further investigation by a curious circumstance - the investigation of the FSB confused (and the Prosecutor General's Office confirmed this in the indictment) the number of the federal law on which Vrublevsky was involved: instead of 26-FZ (articles 272 illegal access and 273 creation and use of viruses) FZ,[25] the law on ratification of the agreement of the Russian Federation and the countries of Asia on creation of the joint drug center.
[33] Vrublevksy's co-defendant Igor Artimovich, told the New York Times that he was offered a similar deal for a reduced sentence in return for working for the Russian government, but he declined.
[34] In December 2016, officers of the CIS FSB Sergey Mikhailov, Dmitry Dokuchaev, head of the cybercrime investigation department of Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov, and Georgy Fomchenkov were arrested for treason.
In January 2017, it became known that the head of the site "Humpty Dumpty", journalist Vladimir Anikeev, also known as the "Anonymous International", who hacked the mail of Russian businessmen and high-ranking officials, was detained shortly before the arrest of FSB officers.
[36] In March 2017, the US Department of Justice announces the involvement of Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchaev in the hacking of 500 million Yahoo mail accounts.
[37] On June 12, 2017, a significant part of the documents on the Mikhailov case was sealed with a "secret" stamp, Rosbalt reported, citing an informed source.