Duqu 2.0 hackers may have cracked Kaspersky to recon research

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2934398/cybercrime-hacking/duqu-20-hackers-may-have-cracked-kaspersky-to-recon-research.html

By Gregg Keizer
Computerworld
June 11, 2015

Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian whose namesake company acknowledged that it 
had been infected with top-tier malware, struggled during a press 
conference to come up with reasons why the hackers targeted his firm.

After all, antivirus makers like Kaspersky Lab should be prepared to sniff 
out and snuff out an attack.

"They were not only stupid, but greedy," Kaspersky said during a 
London-based press conference Wednesday, which was also webcast to 
reporters elsewhere.

When asked why the attackers -- whose malware was dubbed Duqu 2.0 in a nod 
to 2011's Duqu, which in turn was thought to be an offspring of the 
infamous Stuxnet -- went head-to-head with his company, Kaspersky had 
theories but nothing more.

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