Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
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Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#2Ethics aside, that's pretty neat actually. That's like ordering a linkfarm SEO package as a Xmas gift for your competitors :)
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#3Isn't is a breach of trust for a protector-against-malware to also be a producer-of-malware?
I'd certainly reconsider my Kaspersky license if I had one.
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#4Ethics aside, that's pretty neat actually. That's like ordering a linkfarm SEO package as a Xmas gift for your competitors :)
Yeah... But it's also very uncompetitive. And, more importantly, if they are willing to engage in this behavior what other perhaps more unsavory things are they willing to engage in?
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#5We have started seeing a lot of bad publicity and innuendos targeted toward Kaspersky after they uncovered and published about hacking attack against their infrastructure in recent past. Feels suspicious to me especially with comments attributed to 'former employees'.
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#6Isn't is a breach of trust for a protector-against-malware to also be a producer-of-malware? I'd certainly reconsider my Kaspersky license if I had one.
>I'd certainly reconsider my Kaspersky license if I had one.
Well, giving ring 0 access to security software made by a company that is very near to a "not so friendly" state would worry me more than the fact that they play dirty with competition.
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#7I can see if rivals were 'aping' their software, whatever that means, that Eug might get angry. It's another thing to engage in this kind of retaliatory behavior because not only can it lead to data loss for users caught in this juvenile dispute but raises other grave questions about what else they might engage in.
Most worrisome is what other unscrupulous behavior is he willing to engage in? Is he willing to do the bidding of the motherland at the expense of the trust customers put into the product?
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#8In addition, it ruins the reputation of Windows and PCs in general, and just makes lives miserable for (at an absolute minimum) less tech savvy users.
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#9We have started seeing a lot of bad publicity and innuendos targeted toward Kaspersky after they uncovered and published about hacking attack against their infrastructure in recent past. Feels suspicious to me especially with comments attributed to 'former employees'.
It's great that you read these things with some suspicion, but would you use the same suspicion when reading allegations against US or European companies?
And, their main development being done in Moscow, do you expect current employees to stick their heads up? There aren't a lot of protections for whistle blowers in Russia. I'm pretty sure they'd be declared traitors, if they did reveal something like this in a formal setting.
Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees
#10Ethics aside, that's pretty neat actually. That's like ordering a linkfarm SEO package as a Xmas gift for your competitors :)
Yeah... But it's also very uncompetitive. And, more importantly, if they are willing to engage in this behavior what other perhaps more unsavory things are they willing to engage in?
Of course, this might call into question the authenticity of their recently published research into state funded spyware. I'm sure it's just a coincidence the anonymous sources chose to speak after a decade of silence.