With reports from Gregg Keizer at Computerworld. Alex Hern, writing for The Guardian: Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive and co-founder of the embattled Russian cybersecurity firm that bears his name, believes his company is at the centre of a 'designed and orchestrated attack' to destroy its reputation. Even so, “no matter the reasons behind this attack, the bad guys have lost a very expensive and sophisticated framework they’d been developing and nurturing for years.” In the post, Kaspersky called Duqu 2.0 “extremely innovative and advanced” and noted that since it lives in system RAM and avoids making changes to a hard drive, it’s difficult to spot. The antivirus firm found no evidence that Duqu accessed customer or partner information. Surprisingly, the hackers apparently weren’t after Kaspersky’s customers.“…If that is the case, the attackers messed up: now we know how to catch a new generation of stealthy malware developed by them.” The attack may have been a simple ego play, “the urge of the hunter to hang the head of a big lion on a wall,” Kaspersky wrote on.That intelligence would be valuable for hackers looking to craft future malware that could better escape detection.

The young engineer founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997, with Eugene heading the. The attackers may have been seeking insight and information about Kaspersky’s security technology, more specifically how the firm finds malware and decides what to analyze more fully. Kaspersky became interested in computer security in 1989 when his computer was infected with the 'Cascade' virus.

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