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Kaspersky Explains Why They Won't Say Who Hacked Them
New submitter ChannelGonzo writes: Larry Walsh at Channelnomics scores the scoop in a Q&A with Kaspersky's Chris Doggett who says it's not the Russian security company's job to figure out who is responsible for a sophisticated cyber attack on its corporate network over the past few months. "We believe that to go beyond our area of expertise and speculate on the possible sources of attacks is not in the best interest of our customers," Doggett said.
i would be shocked if NSA weren't involved.
People were poopooing the virus, but I think that's because they didn't read the report.
This is a highly sophisticated polymorphic virus using multiple forms of encryption in multiple layers against multiple attack vectors. It's really a piece of work. I don't know why someone would write it and then use it directly against Kaspersky but whoever did it had the cash to hire some very clever people, or was a team of programmers with a genius at the helm and amazing opsec.
Considering the sophistication of the virus I think it would be silly to speculate about who wrote it: whoever it is had to spend a good deal of effort covering their tracks and could easily have compromised multiple third parties just to create red herrings.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Why not us for a change? Dammit, the Russians and Chinese don't have the monopoly on being able to hack something, ya know?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Now, now. They fucked up, but that's no reason to start name calling. It's not ok to call a security company Norton. NO matter how much they fucked up.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Whoever hacked Kaspersky was probably hunting moles. From the outside, it looks as if Kaspersky has been positively brilliant, revealing state level actors, cracking stuxnet, duqu, & duqu2. But what if some other state level actor had been feeding Kaspersky? What if spies, not security researchers, told Kaspersky where to look? It would be worth a lot for the authors of stuxnet etc to be able to confirm or deny that Kaspersky worked without help. That's the best reason I can see for hacking into Kaspersky.
--- Often in error; never in doubt!
A: Not ticking off Putin.
Table-ized A.I.