Russian Call for 'Internetpol' to Fight Cyber Crime

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Age.

[snip]

In its home market Kaspersky Lab is a giant, being the largest software
tools supplier for virus and other malicious software (also called malware)
removal in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It was
founded 10 years ago, with four people, and today has grown to employ more
than 800 worldwide.

The privately held company expects to report a profit of $US40 million
($A45.5 million) on revenue of more than $US200 million for 2007, with
hopes of revenue hitting $US330 million this year and close to $US1 billion
in 2010.

Kaspersky is aware of the incongruity of being an anti-virus company in
Russia, a country considered by many to be the source of much of the
world's malicious software code. But he disputes this assumption.

One of the most common — but least accurate — means of determining the
place of origin of malicious code is to study the language of any written
comments embedded in it. "Just because they use Russian characters, that
doesn't mean they are Russian citizens — they could be Russian-speaking
persons in Europe or the United States," he says.

[snip]

More:
http://business.theage.com.au/russian-call-for-internetpol-to-fight-cybercr
ime/20080128-1oma.html

Note: While I mostly agree with Kaspersky on a lot of these issue,
I think I disagree with him on the most basic of these issue regarding
the Russian Business Network operatives -- while they may not be
operating from a consolidated "base" in Russia, and have indeed
diversified their operations to many places beyond Russia, it in
NO WAY indicates that other criminal operatives are responsible.

In fact, the evidence points to the contrary.

I'm a little puzzled by this statement by Kaspersky.

- - ferg

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