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The whole article sounds funny. "VirusTotal had no immediate comment." "[...], Kaspersky denied using this technique. It said it too had been a victim of such
by yetihehe 11y ago
The whole article sounds funny.
"VirusTotal had no immediate comment."
"[...], Kaspersky denied using this technique. It said it too had been a victim of such an attack in November 2012, when an "unknown third party" manipulated Kaspersky into misclassifying files [...]"
"The former Kaspersky employees said Microsoft was one of the rivals [...] They declined to give a detailed account of any specific attack."
"In a subsequent interview on Wednesday, Batchelder declined to comment on any role Kaspersky may have played in the 2013 printer code problems or any other attacks. Reuters has no evidence linking Kaspersky to the printer code attack."
"Avast Chief Operating Officer Ondrej Vlcek told Reuters in April that he suspected the offenders were well-equipped malware writers and "wanted to have some fun" at the industry's expense. He did not respond to a request on Thursday for comment on the allegation that Kaspersky had induced false positives."
So, no one says it's Kaspersky, someone called "former employees" says it was, but can't provide any example...
- igravious 11y agoNot a bit coincidental that said firm seems to be the only antivirus firm in recent memory (unless I'm mistaken) that seems to be able or willing to uncover government-level shenanigans. No, not a bit coincidental at all. edit: And of course this http://www.wired.com/2015/06/kaspersky-finds-new-nation-state-attack-network/ http://www.wired.com/2015/06/kaspersky-finds-new-nation-stat... from two months ago. First, security breach; now, an attack on their reputation?
- mc32 11y agoIt's also not coincidental at all that Kaspersky steers clear of exposing any shenanigans by Moskow. I mean, Eug himself claims Russia produces not only the best programmers but also the best exploit writers.... But surprisingly no exposés on them. Hmmm.
- pinewurst 11y agoThat's also because Eug probably doesn't like the taste of polonium in his tea.
- mike_hearn 11y agoOr maybe Russia just doesn't spend as much on this stuff as western governments do. There have been exposes by western AV firms too, but not as many and not as good. If there was obviously Russian govt malware out there, it'd surface sooner or later. We've seen American, Chinese, British, French, Israeli ...... seems odd that there's no Russian yet. But then I get the impression that Russian spying is overblown anyway. They seem to mostly focus inwards these days, or focus only on the former Soviet satellite states. USA has a much more aggressive global agenda.
- trhway 11y ago>Not a bit coincidental that said firm seems to be the only antivirus firm in recent memory (unless I'm mistaken) that seems to be able or willing to uncover government-level shenanigans. like in that joke (an American says "we have freedom - we can criticize Reagan freely", and Russian responds "we have freedom too as we can criticize Reagan freely too") - Kaspersky was pretty active in uncovering StuxNet, i.e. shenanigans of the US/Israel governments :)
- x5n1 11y agoPure propaganda/fluff piece to damage the company. The media has been going hard against Kaspersky in coordination with government agencies.
- XzetaU8 11y agoThe first and foremost "target" here is not only Kaspersky (i.e. Russian tech/security industry) but Russia itself. Notice again the title ;)
- zzzeek 11y agoso, the whole article is bunk because it is based on anonymous sources and did not get responses from all parties involved, but then because the headline has the word "Russia" in it, that's firm evidence of secret US government collusion with a major news outlet.
- XzetaU8 11y agoNo, it's a bunk because it provides zero evidence but plenty of innuendos and unfounded allegations/accusations, and yes it's infinity more plausible a secret plan between the us gov and a us based media corporation than a reputable antivirus vendor like Kaspersky sabotaging its rivals.
- tptacek 11y agoDoes Reuters often write "pure propaganda/fluff pieces"? Or is this piece special?
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- enlightenedfool 11y ago"Kaspersky has won wide respect in the industry for its research on sophisticated Western spying programs and the Stuxnet computer worm that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program in 2009 and 2010" Can't rule out a campaign to smear them. No hard evidence in the report. Just speculation.