Russian Malware Hunter Warns Dangerous Cyber Attack Could Be Coming

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

The Russian malware hunter whose firm discovered the Flame virus said Wednesday there could be plenty more malicious code out there, and warned he feared a disastrous cyber attack could be coming.

“It’s quite logical that there are new cyber weapons designed, and maybe already computers infected that we don’t know about,” Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab, said on the fringes of a Tel Aviv University cyber security conference.

Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s biggest producers of anti-virus software, said its experts discovered Flame during an investigation prompted by the International Telecommunication Union.

Iran appears to have been the main target of the attack which was discovered just a month after the Islamic republic said it halted the spread of a data-deleting virus targeting computer servers in its oil sector.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/russian-malware-hunter-warns-dangerous-cyber-attack-could-be-coming/

[eggplant]

1. Kaspersky Lab, one of the world’s biggest producers of anti-virus software, said...

n/t

[PSPS]

2. Yes, there's that.

However, so many computers are now infected and part of worldwide spambot networks that you can practically set your clock to the sudden influx of "your check is ready" and other spam emails. They spike up just when people are turning on their computers in the morning.

[eggplant]

3. Yup.

There was a time when the period between starting up a shiny new computer (Think Windows XP) and having it download and install all of the patches needed to keep it safe was more than enough for the system to be compromised.

It was like getting mugged while waiting in line at the police station.

Things are better now, but this will always be a game of cat-and-mouse. My point was simply that when the cry of panic comes from a solutions vendor, it should be taken with a big grain of salt.