'Shady RAT' report called alarmist, flawed

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/238382/shady_rat_report_called_alarmist_flawed.html

By John P. Mello Jr.
PCWorld
August 18, 2011

McAfee’s report on Operation Shady RAT, a five-year hacker attack 
against a broad swath of industries, is facing renewed criticism, this 
time from the head of the Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, a man also 
known as the "Virus Pope."

The report, from Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee’s vice president of threat 
research, has drawn fire from members of the security community since 
its release. In a blog posting, Kaspersky wrote that “We conducted 
detailed analysis of the Shady RAT botnet and its related malware, and 
can conclude that the reality of the matter (especially the technical 
specifics) differs greatly from the conclusions made by Mr. 
Alperovitch."

"We consider those conclusions to be largely unfounded and not a good 
measure of the real threat level," he added.

Alperovitch has warned in his report that "every company in every 
conceivable industry with significant size and valuable intellectual 
property and trade secrets has been compromised (or will be shortly), 
with the great majority of the victims rarely discovering the intrusion 
or its impact."

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