Reuters Agency reported that Russian services had detained a suspect in connection with carrying out attacks DDoS attacks on critical infrastructure. The man allegedly did this on behalf of the Ukrainian security services.
The Federal Security Service has arrested a suspect for high treason.
According to the Russian internal security agency, the detained man was also supposed to send money Ukrainian military and gather information about Russian armed forces. The FSB reported that the suspect had already confessed to all charges. He faces a life sentence for this.
Reuters also reported that Russian services had shared a recording of the arrest. It shows the arrested man against the backdrop of a snow-covered city. This is meant to suggest that the intervention took place many months ago.
The media suspects who the detained man is
Although the suspect has not yet been officially identified, media outlets have begun to speculate on his identity. The Russian politics Telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti shared information that the FSB suspect may be physicist Artem Khoroshilov.
He previously worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he focused on superconductors and low-energy physics. temperatures and magnetic properties. According to the data available on ResearchGate in 2023 he was still publishing in scientific journals. Interestingly, his works were published, among others, in “Acta Physica Polonica A”, published by the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.