On July 31, 2013, a conviction was pronounced in the case. They were convicted of organizing a DDoS attack on the payments processor serving Aeroflot, in a bid to win Aeroflot's business for Chronopay. In 2011–2012 CIS FSB filed a case against the owner of Chronopay Pavel Vrublevsky and a number of its employees. Confrontation of the CIS FSB of the Russian Federation and Vrublevsky Prosecution of the company management Chronopay The New York Times hypothesized that the treason trial was at least in part the revenge of a convicted cybercriminal, Pavel Vrublevsky's as Mikhailov, Dokuchev and Stoyanov participated in his conviction. Zenz spoke about her belief that the case was due at least in part to infighting between Russian security services at BlackHat USA in 2019. This was perhaps the goal of the case, according to Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. The result of the case was the complete cessation of cooperation between Russia and the US on cybercrime.

The men were convicted of giving information to American private sector researcher Kimberly Zenz, but Zenz herself was never charged, and her requests to testify for the defense were ignored. Januwas arrested that the head of the 2nd department of the CIS Sergei Mikhailov (FSB) and his deputy Dmitry Dokuchaev In the same case, the head of the department of investigation of computer incidents of Kaspersky Lab Ruslan Stoyanov and Georgy Fomchenkov were arrested. The Mikhailov Case refers to an espionage scandal surrounding the activities of the Center of Information Security (CIS) of FSB (18th Center), whose employees were implicated in high treason after participating in a number of high-profile criminal cases.

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