Infamous Hacker Heading Chinese Antivirus Firm?

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http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/infamous-hacker-heading-chinese-antivirus-firm/#more-17501

By Brian Krebs
Krebs on Security
November 14th, 2012

What does a young Chinese hacker do once he’s achieved legendary status 
for developing Microsoft Office zero-day exploits and using them to 
hoover up piles of sensitive data from U.S. Defense Department 
contractors? Would you believe: Start an antivirus firm?

That appears to be what’s happened at Anvisoft, a Chinese antivirus 
startup that is being somewhat cagey about its origins and leadership. I 
stumbled across a discussion on the informative Malwarebytes user forum, 
in which forum regulars were scratching their heads over whether this 
was a legitimate antivirus vendor. Anvisoft had already been whitelisted 
by several other antivirus and security products (including Comodo), but 
the discussion thread on Malwarebytes about who was running this company 
was inconclusive, prompting me to dig deeper.

I turned to Anvisoft’s own user forum, and found that I wasn’t the only 
one hungry for answers. This guy asked a similar question back in April 
2012, and was answered by an Anvisoft staff member named “Ivy,” who said 
Anvisoft was “a new company with no past records, and we located in 
Canada.” Follow-up questions to the Anvisoft forum admins about the 
names of company executives produced this response, again from Ivy:

“The person who runs anvisoft company is not worth mentioning because he 
is unknown to you.  Yes, the company is located at Canada. 5334 Yonge 
Street, Suite 141, Toronto, Ontario M2N 6V1, Canada.”

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