Fergie's Tech Blog

Russian Call for 'Internetpol' to Fight Cyber Crime

Brad Howarth writes on TheAge.com.au:

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.

More here.

Note: Eugene Kaspersky: Please contact me here. I would like to work with you (and other security industry professionals) to make this effort reality.

I do disagree with some of your assumptions here, but good information-sharing can fix these inaccuracies. - ferg

posted by Fergie @ 1/28/2008 07:46:00 PM