Jeff Stone reports:
Russia’s effort to bring its hackers back home is gaining traction.
For years, the US and Russia have sparred over the fate of alleged cybercriminals. There was Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian man who broke into LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring a decade ago and eventually became the subject of competing extradition requests from the rival countries. (Nikulin was eventually arrested in the Czech Republic, which rebuffed his home country and sent him to the US.)
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Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Dec. 21 that Kazakhstan had approved an extradition request for Nikita Kislitsin, an executive for a prominent Russian cybersecurity firm and former editor of Hacker magazine.
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