Risky Bulletin Newsletter
June 30, 2023
Risky Biz News: New hacker extradition battle begins between the US and Russia
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Authorities in Kazakhstan have decided to kick a hornet's nest and arrested Nikita Kislitsin, the top executive for Russian cybersecurity firm FACCT—the former Russian branch of Group-IB, which split from its parent company earlier this year.
Kislitsin was detained following an international arrest warrant issued by the United States. US authorities are seeking his extradition in relation to a case where he's accused of selling login credentials for Formspring accounts way back in 2012.
All of this happened on June 22. Six days later, on June 28, a Moscow court issued an arrest warrant in absentia in Kislitin's name on some mysterious hacking charge. No details provided.